Parsing Binary Structures; Is there a better way / What is your way?

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

On Thursday 06 August 2009 20:50:30 Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
> Thanks all for your insights and suggestions.
> It seems to me that there are a couple of ways to this bit manipulation
> and a couple of foreign modules to assist you with that.
>
> Would it be worth the while to do a PEP on this?
> Personally I think that it would be nice to have a standard module in
> Python for this but perhaps there is a good reason that there isn't
> already one.

I agree that it would be nice - I think it would be nice if something
like this is added to the struct module to give a "this is the obvious
way that python handles foreign data" module

- Hendrik