long <-> str binary conversion
Is there any lib that convert very long numbers to string just copying the data? These one-liners are too slow: def xlong(s): return sum([ord(c) << e*8 for e,c in enumerate(s)]) def xstr(x): return chr(x&255) + xstr(x >> 8) if x else '' print xlong('abcd'*1024) % 666 print xstr(13**666) ...