From: Waldemar Dick <ruby@...>
Date: 2011-01-27T05:47:35+09:00
Subject: Re: packing large array of mixed native types

Hi,

Am 26.01.2011 21:10, schrieb keithroe@gmail.com:
> I have an array in the form [ uchar, float, float, float, uchar,
> float, float, float, .... ]
> I know I can pack it like this:
> my_array.pack( "CFFFCFFFCFFF...." )
> but then I have to create a string with as many elements as the array
> I am packing,
> which can be quite large.  Is there a way to abbreviate this string
> (eg, somethign like
> my_array.pack( '(CFFF)*' ) ?

Why don't you read 4 elements at a time, pack them and write them in an 
output buffer in a loop?

Just a thought.

Greetings

Waldemar