I asked an LLM to rewrite it for me using the Python built-in struct module, and it gave me this:<p><pre><code> import sys
import struct
from collections import namedtuple
# Bake the layout once into a reusable, precompiled object.
HEADER = struct.Struct(">4sIIIQQ16sQQIIII")
# struct only knows positions, not names — pair it with a namedtuple
# to recover the named-field access that cstruct gives you for free.
Header = namedtuple("Header", [
"magic", "field4", "field8", "fieldC",
"field10", "field18", "field20",
"field30", "field38",
"field40", "field44", "field48", "field4C",
])
with open(sys.argv[1], "rb") as fh:
header = Header._make(HEADER.unpack(fh.read(HEADER.size)))
print(header)
</code></pre>
To me, this seems significantly less readable... less Pythonic, even. The printed output is also less readable.