New submission from Nikita Nemkin:
Currently array module only provides platform-dependent type specifiers.
It would be very nice to have platform-independent specifiers in addition to
that, matching the struct module.
For example array('<H') -> an array of little-endian 2-byte integers.
This issue crops up every time when I use array(). Binary data usually comes in
some predefined format and a manual matching to native format has to be done
(assuming I want to write portable code).
A useful extra would be to support multi-element struct specifiers and present
an array of tuples in this case.
For example array('iff') -> an array of tuples (int, float, float) with native
types.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 183425
nosy: nnemkin
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Portable and extended type specifiers for array module
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.4
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