[Python-ideas] struct.unpack should support open files

[Cameron Simpson]

On 27Dec2018 02:53, Anders Hovmöller <boxed at killingar.net> wrote:
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>> And this is why I, personally, think augumenting struct.unpack and json.read and a myriad of other arbitrary methods to accept both file-like things and bytes is an open ended can of worms.
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>> And it is why I wrote myself my CornuCopyBuffer class (see my other post in this thread).
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>Seems like that should be in the standard library then!

It is insufficiently used at present. The idea seems sound - a flexible 
adapter of bytes sources providing easy methods to aid parsing - based 
on how useful it has been to me. But it has rough edges and one needs to 
convince others of its utility before entry into the stdlib.

So it is on PyPI for easy use.

If you're in the binary I/O/parsing space, pip install it (and 
cs.binary, which utilises it) and see how they work for you. Complain to 
me about poor semantics or bugs. And then we'll see how general purpose 
it really is. The PyPI package pages for each have doco derived from the 
module docstrings.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>