New submission from Mads Kiilerich <m...@kiilerich.com>: The struct module is often used (at least by me) to implement protocols and binary formats. That makes the exact sizes (number of bits/bytes) of the different types very important.
Please add the sizes to for example the table on http://docs.python.org/library/struct . I know that some of the sizes varies with the platform, and in these cases it is fine to define it in terms of the C types, but for Python programmers writing cross-platform code such variable types doesn't matter and are "never" used. (I assume that it is possible to specify all possible types in a cross-platform way, but I'm not sure and the answer is not obvious from the documentation.) ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 103699 nosy: kiilerix severity: normal status: open title: struct - please make sizes explicit versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8469> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
