Martin Panter added the comment: It seems to me that the simplest fix is to document:
1. Struct.format attribute is a byte string 2. The input format strings for struct.pack(), Struct class, etc, are also allowed to be byte strings, for consistency (Issue 16349) Here is a patch that does that, and adds some simple test cases. ---------- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file37474/format-bytes.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21071> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com