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Re: Style help for a Smalltalk-hack

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  Re: Style help for a Smalltalk-hack Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com> - 2012-10-23 08:13 -0700

#31934 — Re: Style help for a Smalltalk-hack

On Oct 22, 2012, at 6:33 PM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

> Another way you could do it is:
> 
> while True:
>    chunk = byteStream.read(4)
>    if not chunk:
>        break
>    ...
> 
> And you could fetch multiple signatures in one read:
> 
> signatures = list(struct.unpack('>{}I'.format(valveCount), byteStream.read(4 * valueCount)))

Thanks, both great ideas. Still does the read/decode slightly different between the different sites, but at least it's localized better. Much appreciated.

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Travis Griggs
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