Hello,
I've noticed a lot of binary protocols require variable length
bytestrings (with or without a null terminator), but it is not easy to
unpack these in Python without first reading the desired length, or
reading bytes until a null terminator is reached.
I've noticed the netstruct library
(ht
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+1 on the idea of supporting variable-length strings with the length
encoded in the preceding packed element!
Several months ago I was trying to write a parser and writer of
PostgreSQL's COPY ... WITH BINARY format. I started out trying to implement
it in pure python using the struct module. Due t
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 04:24:39AM -0600, Elizabeth Myers wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've noticed a lot of binary protocols require variable length
> bytestrings (with or without a null terminator), but it is not easy to
> unpack these in Python without first reading the desired length, or
> reading byte
