"Paul Barrett" <barrett at stsci.edu> wrote in message
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> confusing?) Since I can't use a string object as a writeable buffer, is
> there some other object that I can use as a writeable buffer, not
Maybe an array.array object? Haven't tested... it should, I guess.
Alex