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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/struct.rst4
-rw-r--r--Doc/tutorial/stdlib2.rst8
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_largefile.py2
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/struct.rst b/Doc/library/struct.rst
index d4952bb..d0960ed 100644
--- a/Doc/library/struct.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/struct.rst
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Python values should be obvious given their types:
+--------+-------------------------+--------------------+-------+
| ``i`` | :ctype:`int` | integer | |
+--------+-------------------------+--------------------+-------+
-| ``I`` | :ctype:`unsigned int` | long | |
+| ``I`` | :ctype:`unsigned int` | integer or long | |
+--------+-------------------------+--------------------+-------+
| ``l`` | :ctype:`long` | integer | |
+--------+-------------------------+--------------------+-------+
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Python values should be obvious given their types:
+--------+-------------------------+--------------------+-------+
| ``p`` | :ctype:`char[]` | string | |
+--------+-------------------------+--------------------+-------+
-| ``P`` | :ctype:`void \*` | integer | |
+| ``P`` | :ctype:`void \*` | long | |
+--------+-------------------------+--------------------+-------+
Notes:
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib2.rst b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib2.rst
index 14c60dd..73a896d 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib2.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib2.rst
@@ -134,8 +134,10 @@ Working with Binary Data Record Layouts
The :mod:`struct` module provides :func:`pack` and :func:`unpack` functions for
working with variable length binary record formats. The following example shows
-how to loop through header information in a ZIP file (with pack codes ``"H"``
-and ``"L"`` representing two and four byte unsigned numbers respectively)::
+how to loop through header information in a ZIP file without using the
+:mod:`zipfile` module. Pack codes ``"H"`` and ``"I"`` represent two and four
+byte unsigned numbers respectively. The ``"<"`` indicates that they are
+standard size and in little-endian byte order::
import struct
@@ -143,7 +145,7 @@ and ``"L"`` representing two and four byte unsigned numbers respectively)::
start = 0
for i in range(3): # show the first 3 file headers
start += 14
- fields = struct.unpack('LLLHH', data[start:start+16])
+ fields = struct.unpack('<IIIHH', data[start:start+16])
crc32, comp_size, uncomp_size, filenamesize, extra_size = fields
start += 16
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_largefile.py b/Lib/test/test_largefile.py
index 4dca97f..5731892 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_largefile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_largefile.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
from test import test_support
-import os, struct, stat, sys
+import os, stat, sys
try:
import signal