Unpacker is the complementary class which unpacks XDR data values from a string buffer, and has the following methods:
In addition, every data type that can be packed with a Packer, can be unpacked with an Unpacker. Unpacking methods are of the form unpack_type, and take no arguments. They return the unpacked object. The same caveats apply for unpack_float and unpack_double as above.
In addition, the following methods unpack strings, bytes, and opaque data:
The following methods support unpacking arrays and lists: