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| author | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2011-07-17 09:29:17 (GMT) |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2011-07-17 09:29:17 (GMT) |
| commit | ad3882a2b0c178eaa220eb07f768aecff78ec468 (patch) | |
| tree | 0c923798f19ec892e919b492e453715f76b1e1d9 /Doc/library/struct.rst | |
| parent | 0b447957c75778145ef8ce46d95d4a780cd0e1ab (diff) | |
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Fix closes Issue11436 - Minor clarification to struct documentation for 's' format character.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/struct.rst b/Doc/library/struct.rst index 42bfc14..12820e0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/struct.rst +++ b/Doc/library/struct.rst @@ -240,10 +240,11 @@ not contain whitespace though. For the ``'s'`` format character, the count is interpreted as the length of the bytes, not a repeat count like for the other format characters; for example, ``'10s'`` means a single 10-byte string, while ``'10c'`` means 10 characters. -For packing, the string is truncated or padded with null bytes as appropriate to -make it fit. For unpacking, the resulting bytes object always has exactly the -specified number of bytes. As a special case, ``'0s'`` means a single, empty -string (while ``'0c'`` means 0 characters). +If a count is not given, it defaults to 1. For packing, the string is +truncated or padded with null bytes as appropriate to make it fit. For +unpacking, the resulting bytes object always has exactly the specified number +of bytes. As a special case, ``'0s'`` means a single, empty string (while +``'0c'`` means 0 characters). When packing a value ``x`` using one of the integer formats (``'b'``, ``'B'``, ``'h'``, ``'H'``, ``'i'``, ``'I'``, ``'l'``, ``'L'``, |