From: Mark Dickinson Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:09:50 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Merged revisions 82379 via svnmerge from X-Git-Tag: v2.6.6rc1~157 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=284bc0e711debadfaf30c7c18ef51bbe985a78d5;p=python Merged revisions 82379 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r82379 | mark.dickinson | 2010-06-29 21:09:12 +0100 (Tue, 29 Jun 2010) | 1 line Issue #1789: clarify that the 'size' column in struct docs refers to standard size. ........ --- diff --git a/Doc/library/struct.rst b/Doc/library/struct.rst index bc763e0cff..f1f019dd99 100644 --- a/Doc/library/struct.rst +++ b/Doc/library/struct.rst @@ -156,7 +156,11 @@ Format Characters ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Format characters have the following meaning; the conversion between C and -Python values should be obvious given their types: +Python values should be obvious given their types. The 'Standard size' column +refers to the size of the packed value in bytes when using standard size; that +is, when the format string starts with one of ``'<'``, ``'>'``, ``'!'`` or +``'='``. When using native size, the size of the packed value is +platform-dependent. +--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ | Format | C Type | Python type | Standard size | Notes |