On 26 February 2012 12:34, Eli Bendersky <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:33, pmon mail <[email protected]> wrote: >> Documentation clearly states that the 'L' is a 4 byte integer. >> >> Is this a bug? I'm I missing something? >> > > By default pack uses native size, not standard size. On a 64-bit machine:
As the OP points out, the documentation says that the "Standard Size" is 4 bytes (http://docs.python.org/library/struct.html). While "Standard Size" doesn't appear to be defined in the documentation, and the start of the previous section (7.3.2.1. Byte Order, Size, and Alignment) clearly states that C types are represented in native format by default, the documentation could probably do with some clarification. Paul. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
