import struct
print struct.unpack(format, 'Test astring')
#('Test', 'ing')
来个简单的例子吧，有一个字符串'He is not very happy'，处理一下，把中间的not去掉，然后再输出。
代码如下:
import struct
theString = 'He is not very happy'
format = '2s 1x 2s 5x 4s 1x 5s'
print ' '.join(struct.unpack(format, theString))
输出结果：
He is very happy
