10 Sep
2014
10 Sep
'14
7:45 a.m.
On 10 September 2014 17:42, Cory Benfield
For what it's worth, Nick has made this comment:
Primarily because it's incredibly useful for debugging ASCII based binary formats (which covers many network protocols and file formats).
This is true, but it goes both ways: it makes it a lot *harder* to debug pure-binary network formats (like HTTP/2). I basically have to have an ASCII codepage in front of me to debug using the printed representation of a bytestring because I keep getting characters thrown into my nice hex output. Sadly, you can't please everyone.
memoryview.cast can be a potentially useful tool for that :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia