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author | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2010-06-15 08:49:30 (GMT) |
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committer | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2010-06-15 08:49:30 (GMT) |
commit | 0dafd71c2547796f1e2fb5e0e0810c34d2608c87 (patch) | |
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Fix notes in format character table.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/struct.rst b/Doc/library/struct.rst index 9ba3ce4..be20caa 100644 --- a/Doc/library/struct.rst +++ b/Doc/library/struct.rst @@ -160,38 +160,38 @@ Python values should be obvious given their types: +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ | ``c`` | :ctype:`char` | bytes of length 1 | 1 | | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ -| ``b`` | :ctype:`signed char` | integer | 1 | \(1),\(4) | +| ``b`` | :ctype:`signed char` | integer | 1 | \(1) | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ -| ``B`` | :ctype:`unsigned char` | integer | 1 | \(4) | +| ``B`` | :ctype:`unsigned char` | integer | 1 | | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ | ``?`` | :ctype:`_Bool` | bool | 1 | \(2) | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ -| ``h`` | :ctype:`short` | integer | 2 | \(4) | +| ``h`` | :ctype:`short` | integer | 2 | | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ -| ``H`` | :ctype:`unsigned short` | integer | 2 | \(4) | +| ``H`` | :ctype:`unsigned short` | integer | 2 | | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ -| ``i`` | :ctype:`int` | integer | 4 | \(4) | +| ``i`` | :ctype:`int` | integer | 4 | | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ -| ``I`` | :ctype:`unsigned int` | integer | 4 | \(4) | +| ``I`` | :ctype:`unsigned int` | integer | 4 | | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ -| ``l`` | :ctype:`long` | integer | 4 | \(4) | +| ``l`` | :ctype:`long` | integer | 4 | | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ -| ``L`` | :ctype:`unsigned long` | integer | 4 | \(4) | +| ``L`` | :ctype:`unsigned long` | integer | 4 | | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ -| ``q`` | :ctype:`long long` | integer | 8 | \(3), \(4) | +| ``q`` | :ctype:`long long` | integer | 8 | \(3) | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ -| ``Q`` | :ctype:`unsigned long | integer | 8 | \(3), \(4) | +| ``Q`` | :ctype:`unsigned long | integer | 8 | \(3) | | | long` | | | | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ -| ``f`` | :ctype:`float` | float | 4 | \(5) | +| ``f`` | :ctype:`float` | float | 4 | \(4) | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ -| ``d`` | :ctype:`double` | float | 8 | \(5) | +| ``d`` | :ctype:`double` | float | 8 | \(4) | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ | ``s`` | :ctype:`char[]` | bytes | | \(1) | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ | ``p`` | :ctype:`char[]` | bytes | | \(1) | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ -| ``P`` | :ctype:`void \*` | integer | | \(6) | +| ``P`` | :ctype:`void \*` | integer | | \(5) | +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ Notes: @@ -212,19 +212,11 @@ Notes: :ctype:`__int64`. They are always available in standard modes. (4) - When attempting to pack a non-integer using any of the integer conversion - codes, if the non-integer has a :meth:`__index__` method then that method is - called to convert the argument to an integer before packing. - - .. versionchanged:: 3.2 - Use of the :meth:`__index__` method for non-integers is new in 3.2. - -(5) For the ``'f'`` and ``'d'`` conversion codes, the packed representation uses the IEEE 754 binary32 (for ``'f'``) or binary64 (for ``'d'``) format, regardless of the floating-point format used by the platform. -(6) +(5) The ``'P'`` format character is only available for the native byte ordering (selected as the default or with the ``'@'`` byte order character). The byte order character ``'='`` chooses to use little- or big-endian ordering based |