How to represent a sequence of raw bytes

[Hrvoje Niksic]

"Steven Woody" <narkewoody at gmail.com> writes:

> What's the right type to represent a sequence of raw bytes.  In C,
> we usually do
>
> 1.  char buf[200]  or
> 2.  char buf[] = {0x11, 0x22, 0x33, ... }
>
> What's the equivalent representation for above in Python?

import array
buf = array.array('b', [0x11, 0x22, ...])

It automatically retrieves byte values without having to call ord(),
and it allows changing them.  It also has a C API for getting to the
address of the underlying buffer.