Gregory P. Smith added the comment:
Anders J. Munch on python-dev correctly says:
You overlooked the words "Standard size and alignment are as follows"
that start the quoted paragraph. It's a little confusing because
standard size is not the default. The default is platform-specific
sizes. Only if you start the format string with >, <, ! or = do you
get standard sizes.
The reference documentation is correct as it stands, and, I suspect,
so is the LP64 implementation. Doesn't struct.pack('>l',42) produce a
4-byte string on LP64?
The tutorial at
http://docs.python.org/tut/node13.html#SECTION0013300000000000000000%3E
has a bug though: the format string should use '<'.
I believe zipfile.py correctly uses '<' throughout.
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keywords: +easy -patch
priority: urgent -> normal
severity: major -> normal
versions: -Python 2.4
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