> I believe there is still a need for packing integers as strings and
> unpacking strings as integers, more specifically, offering to Python
> an interface to _PyLong_FromByteArray() and _PyLong_AsByteArray(). I
> would be happy to write the functionality and unittests this coming
> week for 2.6 a
A few years ago (yes, it's been that long), I proposed adding a new
format code to struct that would pack integers as strings, similar to
the 's' format code. In particular, struct.pack('>60G', v) would be a
60-byte big-endian unsigned integer as a string. The feature request
is http://bugs.pytho
