Packing a long long type

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <j4u21aj5r8.fsf at informatik.hu-berlin.de>, Martin von Loewis
<loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:

| crj003 at yahoo.com (Rich J) writes:
|| Does anyone know how it would be possible to pack a list containing
|| 'long long' types (like 111111111111111L)
[...]

| The Python version in the CVS supports a 'q' format, see
| http://python.sourceforge.net/devel-docs/lib/module-struct.html

note that python longs don't necessarily fit in a long long,
since the c long long is of limited width (often 64 bits) and
python longs can be arbitrary length. one representation
that works for all python longs is what you get
from repr(), although it is not too space-efficient.

  -- erno