On Jul 24, 7:16 pm, superpollo <u...@example.net> wrote: > thanks a lot, but [struct] does not work for large integers:
Since the struct module is designed specifically for C-style structs, it's definitely not going to handle arbitrary-length integers on its own. You could chop up your Python (long) integer into C-sized pieces and then pack the pieces; but if you need to do that, the advantage of using struct at all may be minimal or even completely gone. > OTOH, using a higher [pickle] protocol: If you are sure you are going to keep using the same version of Python, then this could work. I would personally not depend on this to keep working in future versions. I'm not aware of any existing package that does what you want. Maybe someone else does. How I personally would tackle your problem is to write the whole thing from scratch (as you've done). John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
