reading struct in python from created struct in c

Question

I am very new at using Python and very rusty with C, so I apologize in advance for how dumb and/or lost I sound.

I have function in C that creates a .dat file contai

Answer 1

Some C code:

#include 
typedef struct { double v; int t; char c;} save_type;
int main() {
    save_type s = { 12.1f, 17, 's'};
    FILE *f = fopen("output", "w");
    fwrite(&s, sizeof(save_type), 1, f);
    fwrite(&s, sizeof(save_type), 1, f);
    fwrite(&s, sizeof(save_type), 1, f);
    fclose(f);
    return 0;
}

Some Python code:

import struct
with open('output', 'rb') as f:
    chunk = f.read(16)
    while chunk != "":
        print len(chunk)
        print struct.unpack('dicccc', chunk)
        chunk = f.read(16)

Output:

(12.100000381469727, 17, 's', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00')
(12.100000381469727, 17, 's', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00')
(12.100000381469727, 17, 's', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00')

but there is also the padding issue. The padded size of save_type is 16, so we read 3 more characters and ignore them.