21 Aug
2001
21 Aug
'01
12:22 p.m.
On 21 Aug 2001, Ketil Malde wrote: (snip)
Can you use Read and Show? I mean, not ideal for all purposes, but very standard. (snip)
I figured it would be quite a waste having the computer convert the data to human-readable form and then parsing it again when a human's not going to be reading the intervening datastream. Even just converting the numbers to ASCII and back takes time when there's quite a few of them. (snip)
Well, 'efficiently' is a problem. :-)
Apparently so! (-: Thanks anyway. Of course, I can get by with an inefficient version where I have to write some pickling and unpickling code for lots of my types, until something better shows up! I assume it will someday. -- Mark