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| author | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2010-06-29 20:09:50 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2010-06-29 20:09:50 (GMT) |
| commit | 284bc0e711debadfaf30c7c18ef51bbe985a78d5 (patch) | |
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r82379 | mark.dickinson | 2010-06-29 21:09:12 +0100 (Tue, 29 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Issue #1789: clarify that the 'size' column in struct docs refers to standard size.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/struct.rst b/Doc/library/struct.rst index bc763e0..f1f019d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/struct.rst +++ b/Doc/library/struct.rst @@ -156,7 +156,11 @@ Format Characters ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Format characters have the following meaning; the conversion between C and -Python values should be obvious given their types: +Python values should be obvious given their types. The 'Standard size' column +refers to the size of the packed value in bytes when using standard size; that +is, when the format string starts with one of ``'<'``, ``'>'``, ``'!'`` or +``'='``. When using native size, the size of the packed value is +platform-dependent. +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ | Format | C Type | Python type | Standard size | Notes | |