[issue8069] struct documentation problem and suggestion to add fixed size formats

2010-03-05 Thread Jeremy Sanders
Jeremy Sanders added the comment: Sorry - I didn't read the docs clearly enough. This probably isn't a bug then. Can you mark it invalid? -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.

[issue8069] struct documentation problem and suggestion to add fixed size formats

2010-03-05 Thread Jeremy Sanders
New submission from Jeremy Sanders : The struct documentation at http://docs.python.org/library/struct.html says: Standard size and alignment are as follows: no alignment is required for any type (so you have to use pad bytes); short is 2 bytes; int and long are 4 bytes; long long (__int64 on