Kris Kennaway: > I am trying to parse a bit-stream file format (bzip2) that does not have > byte-aligned record boundaries, so I need to do efficient matching of > bit substrings at arbitrary bit offsets. > Is there a package that can do this?
You may take a look at Hachoir or some other modules: http://hachoir.org/wiki/hachoir-core http://pypi.python.org/pypi/construct/2.00 http://pypi.python.org/pypi/FmtRW/20040603 Etc. More: http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=binary Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list