Re: Reading c struct via python

[Lakshmipathi.G]

> Looks like your "e"... Is that the key field?

Yes, you are right 'e' is the key. And rest of them are data.

>AND the order of the items is "o" before "i"

>-- that doesn't seem to match your C struct definition.

Sorry, I was testing the bdb and while doing that I noticed,

c-struct order is not same as inserted bdb record . But forgot to 

fix the struct order before posting it here. 

(And also I didn't expect someone will dig this deeper on the binary

string output :p . Thanks for your effort! )

>"s" format in which you precode the length of the string in the

>format ("10s" is a 10 character string), and "p" format in which the first

>byte of the string is the length (0..255) of the rest of the string. The

>struct module doesn't handle C-type null terminated strings directly.

I think we can use 'p' format. (Thus storing the string-length before actual 

string content). That should help us unpack easily. 

Thanks  Dennis Lee Bieber, for the detailed info and step by step parsing

of the output. It really helped. 

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