From bdbe74183ceb7aedd71dd1afdf8755ee93e8c3ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Peters Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:54:04 +0000 Subject: Documented the 2's-comp business for the new long opcodes. --- Lib/pickletools.py | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) 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. """) -- cgit v0.12