From: Mark Dickinson Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:09:12 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Issue #1789: clarify that the 'size' column in struct docs refers to standard size. X-Git-Tag: v2.7~35 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4aa5f6f1f2b080bf1f17cfb97edb2ed9483e2e0d;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git 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 f76e4a13090e..b5fd43278f67 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 |