4.3.1 Struct Objects

4.3.1 Struct Objects

The struct module also defines the following type:

class Struct( format): Return a new Struct object which writes and reads binary data according to the format string format. Creating a Struct object once and calling its methods is more efficient than calling the struct functions with the same format since the format string only needs to be compiled once.
New in version 2.5.

Compiled Struct objects support the following methods and attributes:

pack( v1, v2, ...): Identical to the pack() function, using the compiled format. (len(result) will equal self.size.)

pack_into( buffer, offset, v1, v2, ...): Identical to the pack_into() function, using the compiled format.

unpack( string): Identical to the unpack() function, using the compiled format. (len(string) must equal self.size).

unpack_from( buffer[,offset = 0]): Identical to the unpack_from() function, using the compiled format. (len(buffer[offset:]) must be at least self.size).

format: The format string used to construct this Struct object.

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