[issue38837] struct.pack: Unable to pack more than 256 bytes at a time

2019-11-19 Thread Dave Lotton
Dave Lotton added the comment: Mark, you are absolutely correct. I'm an idiot. Focused on wrong thing. Thank you. -- resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.or

[issue38837] struct.pack: Unable to pack more than 256 bytes at a time

2019-11-18 Thread Dave Lotton
New submission from Dave Lotton : Using struct.pack it is not possible (Python 3.6.8 and 2.7.15) to pack more than 256 bytes at a time. This seems like an arbitrarily small number, and seems to be inconsistent with the capabilities of the unpack function, which is able to unpack a larger