On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 08:16:33 +0200, Martin v. Löwis
Andrew Durdin wrote:
I have an application where I have to read and write a series of 24-bit integers in a binary file. The g and G codes would make this more convenient, as well as making all the reading and writing code more consistent (as the rest of it uses struct).
Out of curiosity: is this a fixed number of of integers in that series? If so, how many?
If not, it seems you might be better served if this was an extension to the array module.
There are a fixed number of them -- though it's somewhere in the thousands range... The array module would handle them quite nicely if it supported 3-byte integers; but in general, a more generic struct module will be handier than a more generic array module (I've never dealt with a tuple with thousands of entries before -- is it likely to be a problem? Anyway, wrapping it in a function to read all the ints in blocks and put them in a list is very little trouble).