From 2b007f596431d4a4275f3ad23a1c9974793c781c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Senthil Kumaran Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:29:17 +0800 Subject: Fix closes Issue11436 - Minor clarification to struct documentation for 's' format character. --- Doc/library/struct.rst | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Doc/library/struct.rst') diff --git a/Doc/library/struct.rst b/Doc/library/struct.rst index 42bfc14d96..12820e0282 100644 --- a/Doc/library/struct.rst +++ b/Doc/library/struct.rst @@ -240,10 +240,11 @@ not contain whitespace though. For the ``'s'`` format character, the count is interpreted as the length of the bytes, not a repeat count like for the other format characters; for example, ``'10s'`` means a single 10-byte string, while ``'10c'`` means 10 characters. -For packing, the string is truncated or padded with null bytes as appropriate to -make it fit. For unpacking, the resulting bytes object always has exactly the -specified number of bytes. As a special case, ``'0s'`` means a single, empty -string (while ``'0c'`` means 0 characters). +If a count is not given, it defaults to 1. For packing, the string is +truncated or padded with null bytes as appropriate to make it fit. For +unpacking, the resulting bytes object always has exactly the specified number +of bytes. As a special case, ``'0s'`` means a single, empty string (while +``'0c'`` means 0 characters). When packing a value ``x`` using one of the integer formats (``'b'``, ``'B'``, ``'h'``, ``'H'``, ``'i'``, ``'I'``, ``'l'``, ``'L'``, -- cgit v1.2.1