2's complement conversion. Is this right?
Peter Otten
__peter__ at web.de
Mon Apr 21 17:01:14 EDT 2008
Ivan Illarionov wrote:
> And even faster:
> a = array.array('i', '\0' + '\0'.join((s[i:i+3] for i in xrange(0,
> len(s), 3))))
> if sys.byteorder == 'little':
> a.byteswap()
>
> I think it's a fastest possible implementation in pure python
Clever, but note that it doesn't work correctly for negative numbers. For
those you'd have to prepend "\xff" instead of "\0".
Peter
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