"Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds good to me -- I don't have this need myself but it seems to fit > well. I'm looking forward to a patch. :-)
If I remember correctly, 2.5 was supposed to have binascii.long2b() and binascii.b2long() which would have converted a long integer to a 2.x string and vv, offering access to the underlying PyLong_AsString() and PyLong_FromString() functions. According to my Python 2.5 distribution and the documentation, it didn't make it. Note that there exists a patch against some 2.3 for the struct module that implements a typecode for allowing the packing and unpacking of arbitrarily lengthed integers, also offering access to the underlying PyLong functions. This would likely need to be updated for the post-2.5 struct module, if its functionality is desired. - Josiah > On 11/17/06, Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Forwarded message from Antti Louko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > > > Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:25:03 +0200 > > From: Antti Louko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Python bytes object > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Python bytes object is useful. > > > > I would add bitwise logical operations. They would be most useful in > > cryptographic and graphics operations. > > > > Also, encoding and decoding (long) integers in binary fromat to and from > > bytes type would be useful. Currently, there is no way to efficiently > > convert long integers to binary formats. > > > > Regards, > > > > Antti Louko > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-3000 mailing list > > Python-3000@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > > Unsubscribe: > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/guido%40python.org > > > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > _______________________________________________ > Python-3000 mailing list > Python-3000@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/jcarlson%40uci.edu _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
