struct_parse
builds on the struct module in the standard library. struct
lets you parse buffers by describing the format similarly to C struct definitions. struct_parse
aims to comply with the struct
module's format strings, but instead returns a (very flat) abstract syntax tree (AST).
import struct_parse
field_list = struct_parse.parse('hhl')
print(field_list.fields)
This will print:
[<FieldType.FLOAT: 16>, <FieldType.FLOAT: 16>, <FieldType.LONG: 9>]
For simply unpacking packed binary data, the struct
module does the trick. The goal of this module is to enable the user to do other stuff with the format string--we return a sequence of types instead of a sequence of values.
This library supports only Python 3.