On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Travis Griggs <travisgri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 22, 2012, at 6:33 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>
>> Another way you could do it is:
>>
>> while True:
>> chunk = byteStream.read(4)
>> if not chunk:
>> break
>> ...
>>
>> And you could fetch multiple signatures in one read:
>>
>> signatures = list(struct.unpack('>{}I'.format(valveCount), byteStream.read(4
>> * valueCount)))
>
> Thanks, both great ideas. Still does the read/decode slightly different
> between the different sites, but at least it's localized better. Much
> appreciated.
Another small optimization would be to read the gap and the valveCount together:
chunk = byteStream.read(8)
...
gap, valveCount = struct.unpack('>2l', chunk)
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