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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1997-01-03 19:21:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1997-01-03 19:21:53 (GMT) |
| commit | 653071731afb95dd9a5dd0453c881f1c50315519 (patch) | |
| tree | 768ab74cc08d31988ff0c06dd7a51499480c3c90 /Doc/libstruct.tex | |
| parent | b0b8181622da1df14de1ccadbfc0fc8e697f8748 (diff) | |
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'I' and 'L' now always return a Python long.
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diff --git a/Doc/libstruct.tex b/Doc/libstruct.tex index 6431ca5..f7879f1 100644 --- a/Doc/libstruct.tex +++ b/Doc/libstruct.tex @@ -70,9 +70,7 @@ number of bytes. As a special case, \code{'0s'} means a single, empty string (while \code{'0c'} means 0 characters). For the \code{'I'} and \code{'L'} format characters, the return -value is a Python long integer if a Python plain integer can't -represent the required range (note: this is dependent on the size of -the relevant C types only, not of the sign of the actual value). +value is a Python long integer. By default, C numbers are represented in the machine's native format and byte order, and properly aligned by skipping pad bytes if |