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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2009-10-08 15:59:20 +0000
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2009-10-08 15:59:20 +0000
commit024753e40b985a027cdb929c266ca3aebe8ad54e (patch)
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Merged revisions 75283 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r75283 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-08 16:54:10 +0100 (Thu, 08 Oct 2009) | 4 lines Issue #7078: _struct.__doc__ was being ignored. Import it into struct. Also add description of '?' struct format character. Thanks Gabriel Genellina for the patch. ........
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diff --git a/Modules/_struct.c b/Modules/_struct.c
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--- a/Modules/_struct.c
+++ b/Modules/_struct.c
@@ -1900,18 +1900,20 @@ static struct PyMethodDef module_functions[] = {
PyDoc_STRVAR(module_doc,
"Functions to convert between Python values and C structs.\n\
Python bytes objects are used to hold the data representing the C struct\n\
-and also as format strings to describe the layout of data in the C struct.\n\
+and also as format strings (explained below) to describe the layout of data\n\
+in the C struct.\n\
\n\
The optional first format char indicates byte order, size and alignment:\n\
- @: native order, size & alignment (default)\n\
- =: native order, std. size & alignment\n\
- <: little-endian, std. size & alignment\n\
- >: big-endian, std. size & alignment\n\
- !: same as >\n\
+ @: native order, size & alignment (default)\n\
+ =: native order, std. size & alignment\n\
+ <: little-endian, std. size & alignment\n\
+ >: big-endian, std. size & alignment\n\
+ !: same as >\n\
\n\
The remaining chars indicate types of args and must match exactly;\n\
these can be preceded by a decimal repeat count:\n\
x: pad byte (no data); c:char; b:signed byte; B:unsigned byte;\n\
+ ?: _Bool (requires C99; if not available, char is used instead)\n\
h:short; H:unsigned short; i:int; I:unsigned int;\n\
l:long; L:unsigned long; f:float; d:double.\n\
Special cases (preceding decimal count indicates length):\n\