Packing a long long type
Tim Peters
tim.one at home.com
Tue Jun 19 19:21:59 EDT 2001
[Rich J]
> Does anyone know how it would be possible to pack a list containing
> 'long long' types (like 111111111111111L) and other standard types
> (int, string, char).
I don't know what you mean by "pack". The std pickle/cPickle modules have
no trouble with these, though. Note that 111111111111111L is an instance of
Python's unbounded int type.
> I know you can use the struct module to pack all but the 'long long'.
Note that struct in 2.2 has new 'q' and 'Q' format codes, for the C
compiler's notion of signed and unsigned "long long" (__int64 under Windows)
in native modes, and x-platform 8-byte ints in standard modes.
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