On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 06:46:28PM +0100, Just van Rossum wrote:
"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
1. Nobody has proposed to include it, yet.
Including its author ;-)
That is why I posted to a forum where I knew said author would read me ;-)
2. It is not obvious that it is useful.
On the latter point: What application is finding it so useful that they incorporate it in their distribution?
Heck, I would have used it instead of struct in all places I ever used struct, if I knew about it before :-) (But the only one of these who is public is the Python client library of the PicoGUI toolkit. It has a heavy dependency on struct, which could be made much more readable with sstruct - actually this is why sstruct got my attention in the first place.) I guess it's essentialy Just's fault for not publicizing his cool stuff better... Perhaps it is not a good time for it to go into 2.3, but I think this is the kind of thing that belongs in the library. It does the same job as struct, but with a more readable (and arguably, pythonic) API. I can volunteer to write the docs and tests, if needed. []s, |alo +---- -- Those who trade freedom for security lose both and deserve neither. -- http://www.laranja.org/ mailto:lalo@laranja.org pgp key: http://www.laranja.org/pessoal/pgp Eu jogo RPG! (I play RPG) http://www.eujogorpg.com.br/ GNU: never give up freedom http://www.gnu.org/