Can't address the 8-byte longs, but to strip off null padding in strings you merely do
s=s.rstrip('\x00') Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I would like to be able to pack/unpack 8-byte longs, and have strings > with null padding to be able to have the nulls trimmed off > automatically. > > Just thought I would mention these two items on my wish list, since I > searched a bit, and haven't yet found a mention of this... > > Regards, > Lee > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list