Travis E. Oliphant wrote: > It also bothers me that so many ways to describe binary data are > being used out there. This is a problem that deserves being solved.
Is there a survey paper somewhere about binary formats? What formats are used in particle physics, bio-informatics, astronomy, etc? What software is used to read and write binary data? What descriptive languages are used for data (SQL, XML, etc)? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com