[Python-Dev] adding Construct to the standard library?

[Greg Ewing]

Travis Oliphant wrote:

> For what it's worth,  NumPy also defines a data-type object which it 
> uses to describe the fundamental data-type of an array.  In the context 
> of this thread it is also yet another way to describe a binary-packed 
> structure in Python.

Maybe there should be a separate module providing
a data-packing facility that ctypes, NumPy, etc.
can all use (perhaps with their own domain-specific
extensions to it).

It does seem rather silly to have about 3 or 4
different incompatible ways to do almost exactly
the same thing (struct, ctypes, NumPy and now
Construct).

--
Greg