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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1997-08-26 20:39:54 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1997-08-26 20:39:54 (GMT)
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Ignore whitespace between formats (not internal to a count+format).
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@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ and Python values should be obvious given their types:
A format character may be preceded by an integral repeat count; e.g.\
the format string \code{'4h'} means exactly the same as \code{'hhhh'}.
+Whitespace characters between formats are ignored; a count and its
+format must not contain whitespace though.
+
For the \code{'s'} format character, the count is interpreted as the
size of the string, not a repeat count like for the other format
characters; e.g. \code{'10s'} means a single 10-byte string, while