Antoine Pitrou 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
New submission from Mikhail Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
pack/unpack behavior changes unexpectedly depending on the byte order:
l:/tmp >uname -pmiovs
Linux #1 SMP 2008-10-14 22:17:43 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
l:/tmp >python
python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Aug 1 2008, 00:35:20)
[GC
