> Recently I am writing a small network application with python. > > The protocol is binary based and defined in c header files. > > Now I'm using the upack function of 'struct' module, but it's really > annoying to write fmt strings for complicated structures. > > What will be your choice when handling binary structures?
I would write a couple of wrapper functions around unpack of struct so that the actual unpacking is less annoying but otherwise would continue using the same approach as what you describe. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
