When you used autoreset=False
option of ~msgpack.Packer
, pack()
method doesn't return packed bytes
.
You can use ~msgpack.Packer.bytes
or ~msgpack.Packer.getbuffer
to get packed data.
bytes()
returns bytes
object. getbuffer()
returns some bytes-like object. It's concrete type is implement detail and it will be changed in future versions.
You can reduce temporary bytes object by using Unpacker.getbuffer()
.
packer = Packer(use_bin_type=True, autoreset=False)
packer.pack([1, 2])
packer.pack([3, 4])
with open('data.bin', 'wb') as f:
f.write(packer.getbuffer())
packer.reset() # reset internal buffer