Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:
What Eric said. You can see the padding explicitly in the results of
struct.pack:
>>> struct.pack("ci", '*', 0x12131415) # 8-byte result, 3 padding bytes
'*\x00\x00\x00\x15\x14\x13\x12'
>>> struct.pack("ic", 0x12131415, '*') # 5-byte result, no padding.
'\x15\x14\x13\x12*'
Note the 3 zero bytes in the first result string.
This gets reported frequently enough that I wonder whether the docs
should be rearranged and/or expanded. The existence of padding is
mentioned, but not particularly prominently or thoroughly.
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nosy: +mark.dickinson
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