On Feb 24, 9:39 am, Toby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As part of a program I'm writing, I need to save to disk big amounts of > data (hundreds of MB, in 8kB chunks) swapping every couple of bytes. > > I obviously cannot do it in a Python loop. > > Is there a function I could use in the standard library, or do I have to > write my own C extension?
Try the using the array module. array objects provide a byteswap method which reverses endianness. -Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list