Re: Endianness conversion

2007-02-24 Thread Daniel Harding
On Feb 24, 9:39 am, Toby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As part of a program I'm writing, I need to save to disk big amounts of > data (hundreds of MB, in 8kB chunks) swapping every couple of bytes. > > I obviously cannot do it in a Python loop. > > Is there a function I could use in the standard lib

Re: Python vs. Lisp -- please explain

2006-02-22 Thread Daniel Harding
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Who says Python is so slow? I've just got Python to count from 0 up to > 100,000, and it only took 7 milliseconds. That's at least 12 milliseconds > faster than I can count on my fingers. +1 QOTW -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list