structread
Aahz
aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Oct 22 23:03:14 EDT 2009
In article <hbk4p5$uc$1 at lust.ihug.co.nz>,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>
>This routine is so useful, I wonder there's nothing like it in module
>struct, or anywhere else I'm aware of:
>
> def structread(fromfile, decode_struct) :
> """reads sufficient bytes from fromfile to be unpacked according to
> decode_struct, and returns the unpacked results."""
> return struct.unpack(decode_struct, fromfile.read(struct.calcsize(decode_struct)))
> #end structread
Guido is generally opposed to simple one-liners.
--
Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/
Member of the Groucho Marx Fan Club
More information about the Python-list
mailing list