Have you tried using ctypes? In particular ctypes.from_buffer is such a useful function. https://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html https://docs.python.org/

Have you tried using ctypes? In particular ctypes.from_buffer is such a useful function. https://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html https://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html Unfortunately it doesn't work in PyPy. https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/issue/869/ https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/issue/869/