On Monday, Aug 11, 2003, at 11:51 America/New_York, Thomas Heller wrote:

>  Bob Ippolito <bob@[...].com> writes:
> 
> > It's now in CtypesTodoList
> 
>  Thanks.
> 
>  But I was thinking in a different direction: Why not give up binary
>  strings (containing NUL characters) completely, and use arrays of
>  c_byte of c_ubytes instead, if you need them?

Because dealing with binary data as integers is not pythonic.  Python 
handles arbitrary binary data with the str type.  I can't even think of 
a use case for "I want a bunch of binary data as a int8", and even if 
you had a real one, you could use array, numeric, numarray, or 
struct.unpack.

-bob



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