struct enhancements?

[lee_merrill]

Hi everyone,

I would like to be able to pack/unpack 8-byte longs, and have strings
with null padding to be able to have the nulls trimmed off
automatically.

Just thought I would mention these two items on my wish list, since I
searched a bit, and haven't yet found a mention of this...

Regards,
Lee

 

[Larry Bates]

Can't address the 8-byte longs, but to strip off null padding
in strings you merely do

s=s.rstrip('\x00')

Larry Bates

 

[lee_merrill]

Thanks! I have 16 zillion ... well 16,000 strings that need trimming.

Lee

 

[Tim Peters]

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I would like to be able to pack/unpack 8-byte longs, ...

Have you tried struct's 'q' or 'Q' format codes?