New submission from Caleb Deveraux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm not exactly sure if this is a bug or by design. Within the struct module, whenever you provide a format string containing a repeat count with no associated format specifier, the count is silently ignored.
eg. >>> struct.pack("12345") '' >>> struct.pack("3s42", "abc") 'abc' (This also happens with unpack*, and pack_into) The attached patch changes the above behavior to the following: >>> struct.pack("12345") struct.error: repeat count given without format specifier >>> struct.pack("3s42", "abc") struct.error: repeat count given without format specifier Unit tests are included. The attached patch is built against revision 64324 of the python SVN trunk. Odd behavior observed in both 2.6 (svn r64324), and 2.5.2. (Tested on Ubuntu x86_64 w/ Linux kernel 2.6.24) ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: patch.p0 messages: 68309 nosy: carrus85 severity: normal status: open title: struct allows repeat spec. without a format specifier type: behavior versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10643/patch.p0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3129> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com