On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Ron Adam wrote:
It seems to me, that maybe a single "byte_buffer" type, that can be defined to the exact needed byte lengths and have possible other characteristics to aid in interfacing to other languages or devices, would be a better choice.
Then pythons ints, floats, etc... can uses what ever internal lengths is most efficient for the system it's compiled on and then the final result can be stored in the 'byte_buffer' for interfacing purposes.
It would also be a good choice for bit manipulation when someone needs that, instead of trying to do it in an integer.
Would something like that fulfill your need?
Sounds interresting. Not exactly stright-forward. What i have now is
functional, but if speed becomes a problem then this might be useful.
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