7.1. struct — 将字节解释成打包二进制数据

此模块履行在 Python 值和 C 结构之间的转换以表示 Python bytes 对象。这可以用于处理存储在文件 (或来自网络连接) 的二进制数据。它使用 格式字符串 作为 C 结构布局的紧凑描述,和旨在转换到/来自 Python 值。

注意

默认情况下,打包给定 C 结构体的结果包括铺垫字节,以维持涉及 C 类型的适当对齐;同样,也会考虑对齐当解包时。选择此行为以便打包结构字节与相应 C 结构内存布局准确对应。要处理独立于平台的数据格式或省略隐式铺垫字节,使用 standard 大小和对齐而不是 native 大小和对齐:见 字节序、大小和对齐 了解细节。

几个 struct 函数 (和方法对于 Struct ) 接受 buffer argument. This refers to objects that implement the 缓冲协议 and provide either a readable or read-writable buffer. The most common types used for that purpose are bytes and bytearray , but many other types that can be viewed as an array of bytes implement the buffer protocol, so that they can be read/filled without additional copying from a bytes 对象。

7.1.1. 函数和异常

该模块定义了下列异常和函数:

exception struct. error

Exception raised on various occasions; argument is a string describing what is wrong.

struct. pack ( fmt , v1 , v2 , ... )

Return a bytes object containing the values v1 , v2 , ... packed according to the format string fmt . The arguments must match the values required by the format exactly.

struct. pack_into ( fmt , buffer , offset , v1 , v2 , ... )

Pack the values v1 , v2 , ... according to the format string fmt and write the packed bytes into the writable buffer buffer 起始于位置 offset 。注意, offset is a required argument.

struct. unpack ( fmt , buffer )

Unpack from the buffer buffer (presumably packed by pack(fmt, ...) ) according to the format string fmt . The result is a tuple even if it contains exactly one item. The buffer must contain exactly the amount of data required by the format ( len(bytes) must equal calcsize(fmt) ).

struct. unpack_from ( fmt , buffer , offset=0 )

Unpack from buffer 起始于位置 offset , according to the format string fmt . The result is a tuple even if it contains exactly one item. buffer must contain at least the amount of data required by the format ( len(buffer[offset:]) must be at least calcsize(fmt) ).

struct. iter_unpack ( fmt , buffer )

Iteratively unpack from the buffer buffer according to the format string fmt . This function returns an iterator which will read equally-sized chunks from the buffer until all its contents have been consumed. The buffer’s size in bytes must be a multiple of the amount of data required by the format, as reflected by calcsize() .

Each iteration yields a tuple as specified by the format string.

3.4 版新增。

struct. calcsize ( fmt )

Return the size of the struct (and hence of the bytes object produced by pack(fmt, ...) ) corresponding to the format string fmt .

7.1.2. 格式字符串

Format strings are the mechanism used to specify the expected layout when packing and unpacking data. They are built up from 格式字符 , which specify the type of data being packed/unpacked. In addition, there are special characters for controlling the 字节序、大小和对齐 .

7.1.2.1. 字节序 大小和对齐

By default, C types are represented in the machine’s native format and byte order, and properly aligned by skipping pad bytes if necessary (according to the rules used by the C compiler).

Alternatively, the first character of the format string can be used to indicate the byte order, size and alignment of the packed data, according to the following table:

字符 字节序 Size 对齐
@ native native native
= native standard none
< little-endian standard none
> big-endian standard none
! network (= big-endian) standard none

If the first character is not one of these, '@' is assumed.

Native byte order is big-endian or little-endian, depending on the host system. For example, Intel x86 and AMD64 (x86-64) are little-endian; Motorola 68000 and PowerPC G5 are big-endian; ARM and Intel Itanium feature switchable endianness (bi-endian). Use sys.byteorder to check the endianness of your system.

Native size and alignment are determined using the C compiler’s sizeof expression. This is always combined with native byte order.

Standard size depends only on the format character; see the table in the 格式字符 章节。

Note the difference between '@' and '=' : both use native byte order, but the size and alignment of the latter is standardized.

The form '!' is available for those poor souls who claim they can’t remember whether network byte order is big-endian or little-endian.

There is no way to indicate non-native byte order (force byte-swapping); use the appropriate choice of '<' or '>' .

注意事项:

  1. Padding is only automatically added between successive structure members. No padding is added at the beginning or the end of the encoded struct.
  2. No padding is added when using non-native size and alignment, e.g. with ‘<’, ‘>’, ‘=’, and ‘!’.
  3. To align the end of a structure to the alignment requirement of a particular type, end the format with the code for that type with a repeat count of zero. See 范例 .

7.1.2.2. 格式字符

Format characters have the following meaning; the conversion between C and Python values should be obvious given their types. The ‘Standard size’ column refers to the size of the packed value in bytes when using standard size; that is, when the format string starts with one of '<' , '>' , '!' or '=' . When using native size, the size of the packed value is platform-dependent.

格式 C 类型 Python 类型 标准尺寸 注意事项
x pad byte no value    
c char bytes of length 1 1  
b signed char integer 1 (1),(3)
B unsigned char integer 1 (3)
? _Bool bool 1 (1)
h short integer 2 (3)
H unsigned short integer 2 (3)
i int integer 4 (3)
I unsigned int integer 4 (3)
l long integer 4 (3)
L unsigned long integer 4 (3)
q long long integer 8 (2), (3)
Q unsigned long long integer 8 (2), (3)
n ssize_t integer   (4)
N size_t integer   (4)
f float float 4 (5)
d double float 8 (5)
s char[] bytes    
p char[] bytes    
P void * integer   (6)

3.3 版改变: 添加支持 'n' and 'N' formats.

注意事项:

  1. The '?' conversion code corresponds to the _Bool type defined by C99. If this type is not available, it is simulated using a char . In standard mode, it is always represented by one byte.

  2. The 'q' and 'Q' conversion codes are available in native mode only if the platform C compiler supports C long long , or, on Windows, __int64 . They are always available in standard modes.

  3. When attempting to pack a non-integer using any of the integer conversion codes, if the non-integer has a __index__() method then that method is called to convert the argument to an integer before packing.

    3.2 版改变: Use of the __index__() method for non-integers is new in 3.2.

  4. The 'n' and 'N' conversion codes are only available for the native size (selected as the default or with the '@' byte order character). For the standard size, you can use whichever of the other integer formats fits your application.

  5. 对于 'f' and 'd' conversion codes, the packed representation uses the IEEE 754 binary32 (for 'f' ) or binary64 (for 'd' ) format, regardless of the floating-point format used by the platform.

  6. The 'P' format character is only available for the native byte ordering (selected as the default or with the '@' byte order character). The byte order character '=' chooses to use little- or big-endian ordering based on the host system. The struct module does not interpret this as native ordering, so the 'P' format is not available.

A format character may be preceded by an integral repeat count. For example, the format string '4h' means exactly the same as 'hhhh' .

Whitespace characters between formats are ignored; a count and its format must not contain whitespace though.

对于 's' format character, the count is interpreted as the length of the bytes, not a repeat count like for the other format characters; for example, '10s' means a single 10-byte string, while '10c' means 10 characters. If a count is not given, it defaults to 1. For packing, the string is truncated or padded with null bytes as appropriate to make it fit. For unpacking, the resulting bytes object always has exactly the specified number of bytes. As a special case, '0s' means a single, empty string (while '0c' means 0 characters).

When packing a value x using one of the integer formats ( 'b' , 'B' , 'h' , 'H' , 'i' , 'I' , 'l' , 'L' , 'q' , 'Q' ), if x is outside the valid range for that format then struct.error 被引发。

3.1 版改变: In 3.0, some of the integer formats wrapped out-of-range values and raised DeprecationWarning 而不是 struct.error .

The 'p' format character encodes a “Pascal string”, meaning a short variable-length string stored in a fixed number of bytes , given by the count. The first byte stored is the length of the string, or 255, whichever is smaller. The bytes of the string follow. If the string passed in to pack() is too long (longer than the count minus 1), only the leading count-1 bytes of the string are stored. If the string is shorter than count-1 , it is padded with null bytes so that exactly count bytes in all are used. Note that for unpack() 'p' format character consumes count bytes, but that the string returned can never contain more than 255 bytes.

对于 '?' format character, the return value is either True or False . When packing, the truth value of the argument object is used. Either 0 or 1 in the native or standard bool representation will be packed, and any non-zero value will be True when unpacking.

7.1.2.3. 范例

注意

All examples assume a native byte order, size, and alignment with a big-endian machine.

A basic example of packing/unpacking three integers:

>>> from struct import *
>>> pack('hhl', 1, 2, 3)
b'\x00\x01\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x03'
>>> unpack('hhl', b'\x00\x01\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x03')
(1, 2, 3)
>>> calcsize('hhl')
8
					

Unpacked fields can be named by assigning them to variables or by wrapping the result in a named tuple:

>>> record = b'raymond   \x32\x12\x08\x01\x08'
>>> name, serialnum, school, gradelevel = unpack('<10sHHb', record)
>>> from collections import namedtuple
>>> Student = namedtuple('Student', 'name serialnum school gradelevel')
>>> Student._make(unpack('<10sHHb', record))
Student(name=b'raymond   ', serialnum=4658, school=264, gradelevel=8)
					

The ordering of format characters may have an impact on size since the padding needed to satisfy alignment requirements is different:

>>> pack('ci', b'*', 0x12131415)
b'*\x00\x00\x00\x12\x13\x14\x15'
>>> pack('ic', 0x12131415, b'*')
b'\x12\x13\x14\x15*'
>>> calcsize('ci')
8
>>> calcsize('ic')
5
					

The following format 'llh0l' specifies two pad bytes at the end, assuming longs are aligned on 4-byte boundaries:

>>> pack('llh0l', 1, 2, 3)
b'\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x03\x00\x00'
					

This only works when native size and alignment are in effect; standard size and alignment does not enforce any alignment.

另请参阅

模块 array
Packed binary storage of homogeneous data.
模块 xdrlib
Packing and unpacking of XDR data.

7.1.3. 类

The struct module also defines the following type:

class struct. 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.

Compiled Struct objects support the following methods and attributes:

pack ( v1 , v2 , ... )

等同于 pack() function, using the compiled format. ( len(result) will equal self.size )。

pack_into ( buffer , offset , v1 , v2 , ... )

等同于 pack_into() function, using the compiled format.

unpack ( buffer )

等同于 unpack() function, using the compiled format. ( len(buffer) must equal self.size ).

unpack_from ( buffer , offset=0 )

等同于 unpack_from() function, using the compiled format. ( len(buffer[offset:]) must be at least self.size ).

iter_unpack ( buffer )

等同于 iter_unpack() function, using the compiled format. ( len(buffer) 必须是倍增的 self.size ).

3.4 版新增。

format

The format string used to construct this Struct object.

size

The calculated size of the struct (and hence of the bytes object produced by the pack() method) corresponding to format .