how to use xdrlib

[Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva]

Hi there,

I am trying to understand how xdrlib works as I want to read files in this
format. The problem is I don't much about xdr (although I read
http://docs.python.org/library/xdrlib.html and RFC 1832).

Another problem is I don't know how the file I want to read was encoded.

So when I do something like:

import xdrlib

f = open('file.xdr').read()
data = xdrlib.Unpacker(f)

Then, I don't know which "unpack_*" to use.

If I use,

repr(data.unpack_string())

sometimes it returns something meaningful like:

"'Ryckaert-Bell.'"

but other times,

'\x00\x00\x00\x04Bond\x00\x00\x00\x05Angle\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x0bProper
Dih.\x00'

if not a error.

Well, as you see, I am a bit lost here and any hint would be very
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Alan

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Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.
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