[Pythonmac-SIG] convert binary plist to xml string
Bill Janssen
janssen at parc.com
Mon May 16 21:07:22 CEST 2005
>
> On May 16, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
>
> > Pascal data structures?!
>
> Have you ever looked at the Carbon/QuickTime APIs? I guess not.
Nope.
> Mac OS past was originally written with Pascal calling conventions and
> pascal strings (unsigned char length prefixed strings), so you see
> them all over the place. It's ugly, but so are the APIs that use
> them :)
>
> -bob
Isn't that what the "p" code in struct is for? Reading/writing those?
Or is the length prefix a short or int?
Bill
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