On 04 Feb 2005 19:24:29 -0800, Paul Rubin <> wrote: > Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > Why don't you look at the struct module instead. You could also look > the xdr or xmlrpc libraries, which may be closer to what you want.
Or look at existing, successful standards like HTTP, SMTP, etc. Most of them are text-based -- which wastes a small bit of bandwidth and CPU cycles, but helps debugging and interoperability a lot. The xdr module which P.R. refers to implements a simple, standard way of passing binary datatypes over a network, and is available everywhere, for all languages. Don't know anything about xmlrpc, except that it is magnitudes more complex and powerful. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <jgrahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ algonet.se> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
