One minor point (that may already have been addressed, I've not seen the whole discussion): note that 4CCs not only occur on the Mac but also in various other contexts: AIFF files use 4CCs to define chunk types, MP4 files use them for a gazillion different things (media types, codec types, etc). Actually, codec types are generally defined by their 4CC, and some times these even get to be used as their mainstream name (divx and xvid).
It may be worthwhile to add generalized support somewhere to handle converting 4CCs from readable to binary representation. And, of course, the world being as it is some formats (Mac OSTypes, for example, and probably quicktime/mp4 as well, but I'm not sure) represent 4CCs in big-endian order, others (AIFF) in little-endian. -- Jack Jansen, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman _______________________________________________ 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
