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Sun Nov 23 18:56:41 EST 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-November/040400.html

> Use Case:  I have a program written in C that contains a bunch of
> aggregate data structures (arrays of structs, structs containing
> arrays, etc.) and I'm transmitting these structures over a socket
> connection to a Python program that then unpacks the data using the
> struct module.

An alternative would be to teach the C program to write
the data in pickle or marshal format... :-)

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[Python-Dev] Extending struct.unpack to produce nested tuples