Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:
The change in result length is actually normal. If you look at the doc
for the struct module, the default size and byte order character is "@",
which means "native byte order and native size". On x86-64 Linux, the
"native" long size is 64 bits, so the result is 8 bytes long. When using
one of {"<", ">", "!", "="}, you instead select the "standard" long size
according to the struct module which is 32 bits.
I agree it can be surprising though.
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nosy: +pitrou
resolution: -> invalid
status: open -> closed
versions: +Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1 -Python 2.5
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