Hi momobear > then how can I convert it to a int list? I read about struct and array, > I think they are not suitable, since I don't know how long will the > buffer is. I know if I write a plugins modules in C should works, but > that's really upset to tell to myself there is no way in Python.
this was imho a typical non-problem in "scripting languages" - regarding the areas where they are usually employed. there are some good exensions for Python, numarray and numpy and so on ... (http://numeric.scipy.org/) These provide C-like arrays and allow you writing programs entirely in Python w/C-speed on arrays. interesting: Perl6 will be the first (afaik) scripting language w/"type arrays" build into the core language e.g. sub hist(Int @vals) returns Array of Int { my Int @histogram; for @vals { @histogram[$_]++ } return @histogram; } (from http://www.jauu.net/data/foils/perl6/perl_6.html) Regards, M. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
