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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2003-01-27 23:54:04 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2003-01-27 23:54:04 (GMT)
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Documented the 2's-comp business for the new long opcodes.
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diff --git a/Lib/pickletools.py b/Lib/pickletools.py
index cbc265f..90df209 100644
--- a/Lib/pickletools.py
+++ b/Lib/pickletools.py
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ long1 = ArgumentDescriptor(
doc="""A binary long, little-endian, using 1-byte size.
This first reads one byte as an unsigned size, then reads that
- many bytes and interprets them as a little-endian long.
+ many bytes and interprets them as a little-endian 2's-complement long.
""")
def read_long2(f):
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ long2 = ArgumentDescriptor(
doc="""A binary long, little-endian, using 2-byte size.
This first reads two byte as an unsigned size, then reads that
- many bytes and interprets them as a little-endian long.
+ many bytes and interprets them as a little-endian 2's-complement long.
""")
def read_long4(f):
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ long4 = ArgumentDescriptor(
This first reads four bytes as a signed size (but requires the
size to be >= 0), then reads that many bytes and interprets them
- as a little-endian long.
+ as a little-endian 2's-complement long.
""")