Message130284
You are right, I misinterpreted the meaning of 's' without a count (and opened #11436 to clarify). However, for the fairly common case where a variable-length binary block is preceded by a 4 byte *binary* count, one can do something which is not too bad:
>>> block = b'lsfjdlksaj'
>>> n=len(block)
>>> struct.pack('I%ds'%n, n, block)
b'\n\x00\x00\x00lsfjdlksaj'
If leading blanks are acceptable for your example with count as ascii hex digits, one can do something that I admit is worse:
>>> struct.pack('10s%ds2s'%n, ('%8x\r\n'%n).encode(), block, b'\r\n')
b' a\r\nlsfjdlksaj\r\n'
Of course, for either of these in isolation, I would probably only use .pack for the binary conversion and otherwise use '+' or b''.join(...). |
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2011-03-07 19:09:20 | terry.reedy | set | recipients:
+ terry.reedy, loewis, vstinner, eric.smith, benjamin.peterson, arjennienhuis, uau |
2011-03-07 19:09:20 | terry.reedy | set | messageid: <1299524960.06.0.835696054881.issue3982@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2011-03-07 19:09:19 | terry.reedy | link | issue3982 messages |
2011-03-07 19:09:19 | terry.reedy | create | |
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