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- <H1>10.16. Standard module <CODE>xdrlib</CODE></H1>
- The <CODE>xdrlib</CODE> module supports the External Data Representation
- Standard as described in RFC 1014, written by Sun Microsystems,
- Inc. June 1987. It supports most of the data types described in the
- RFC, although some, most notably <CODE>float</CODE> and <CODE>double</CODE> are
- only supported on those operating systems that provide an XDR
- library.
- <P>
- The <CODE>xdrlib</CODE> module defines two classes, one for packing
- variables into XDR representation, and another for unpacking from XDR
- representation. There are also two exception classes.
- <P>
- <H2>Menu</H2><DL COMPACT>
- <DT><A HREF="../p/packer_objects" TYPE=Menu>Packer Objects</A>
- <DD><DT><A HREF="../u/unpacker_objects" TYPE=Menu>Unpacker Objects</A>
- <DD><DT><A HREF="../e/exceptions" TYPE=Menu>Exceptions</A>
- <DD><DT><A HREF="../s/supporting_floating_point_data" TYPE=Menu>Supporting Floating Point Data</A>
- <DD></DL>
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