New submission from Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.:
This code did something unexpected to me:
>>> a = bytearray('1234')
>>> a
bytearray(b'1234')
>>> struct.pack_into('xBxB', a, 0, 0x59, 0x5A)
>>> a
bytearray(b'\x00Y\x00Z')
The unexpected part was that the 'x' pad byte formatter actually *overwrote*
the bytes to 0 rather than leaving them alone.
Not necessarily a bug, but the fact that the pad byte writes 0x00 rather than
being untouched/ignored should be documented.
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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 212416
nosy: bsder
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: struct.pack_into writes 0x00 for pad bytes
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
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