gh-65002: Make note that null bytes are used to pad bytes (GH-98635)

(cherry picked from commit 8cd21c2c5d34a5c5e857782da58d773f29ff8821)

Co-authored-by: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/struct.rst b/Doc/library/struct.rst
index d12a5732fa4a0df52f600437ab495457beb13f3e..620f50376beb62e01ddb7e8fb6c96595125bb63a 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/struct.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/struct.rst
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ platform-dependent.
 +--------+--------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+
 | Format | C Type                   | Python type        | Standard size  | Notes      |
 +========+==========================+====================+================+============+
-| ``x``  | pad byte                 | no value           |                |            |
+| ``x``  | pad byte                 | no value           |                | \(7)       |
 +--------+--------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+
 | ``c``  | :c:expr:`char`           | bytes of length 1  | 1              |            |
 +--------+--------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+
@@ -291,6 +291,9 @@ Notes:
    operations. See the Wikipedia page on the `half-precision floating-point
    format <half precision format_>`_ for more information.
 
+(7)
+   For padding, ``x`` inserts null bytes.
+
 
 A format character may be preceded by an integral repeat count.  For example,
 the format string ``'4h'`` means exactly the same as ``'hhhh'``.