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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1997-01-03 19:21:53 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1997-01-03 19:21:53 (GMT)
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'I' and 'L' now always return a Python long.
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2 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstruct.tex b/Doc/lib/libstruct.tex
index 6431ca5..f7879f1 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstruct.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/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
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