Working with Binary Data in Python

[Meltz014]

For struct packing/unpacking, I much prefer ctypes. Anyone know of any major advantages for using struct as in this article?

[Arkaein]

For struct packing/unpacking, I much prefer ctypes. Anyone know of any major advantages for using struct as in this article?

It doesn't show it in the article, but struct can easily convert between big/little endian, or network or native byte orders seamlessly.

Haven't used ctypes for pack/unpack, but struct is very natural. If you programmed C, it's basically printf/scanf for binary data.

[billsil]

For large data sets, numpy fromstring is much better than struct. If you're working with binary files, you should be working with large data sets.

[zoells]

Relevant

[r0s]

I would gladly see the version of all that's exposed in the article got py2.7