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Unpacking a list of strings

Is there some other practice than reading all the strings and slicing
them later?

They're stored in the form of:
List Group[10]:
char[17] name;

So I thought of doing:
unpacked = unpack('%s' % (10*17), data)

And then slicing the list by a step of 17.

Is there some way to have unpack return a tuple with each element
holding the name (char[17])?

Apr 27 '06 #1
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Panos Laganakos <pa*************@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there some other practice than reading all the strings and slicing
them later?

They're stored in the form of:
List Group[10]:
char[17] name;

So I thought of doing:
unpacked = unpack('%s' % (10*17), data)

And then slicing the list by a step of 17.

Is there some way to have unpack return a tuple with each element
holding the name (char[17])?


unpack by formatstring 10*'17s' ...
Alex
Apr 27 '06 #2

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