New submission from Jeremy Sanders <jer...@jeremysanders.net>:
The struct documentation at http://docs.python.org/library/struct.html says:
Standard size and alignment are as follows: no alignment is required for any
type (so you have to use pad bytes); short is 2 bytes; int and long are 4
bytes; long long (__int64 on Windows) is 8 bytes; float and double are 32-bit
and 64-bit IEEE floating point numbers, respectively. _Bool is 1 byte.
long on linux x86-64 is not 4 bytes. It is 8 bytes long:
xpc1:~:$ python
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Aug 21 2009, 12:23:57)
[GCC 4.4.1 20090818 (Red Hat 4.4.1-6)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import struct
>>> struct.calcsize('L')
8
>>> struct.calcsize('l')
8
It is 4 bytes on i386, however. The documentation should say that long is 8
bytes on linux x86-64.
Also, would it not be a good idea to add struct sizes with specific data sizes,
e.g. 1 byte, 2 bytes, 4 bytes, 8 bytes, so that it is easier to write
cross-platform code?
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 100470
nosy: jeremysanders
severity: normal
status: open
title: struct documentation problem and suggestion to add fixed size formats
versions: Python 2.6
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