Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment: Those others field types have a standard or system-dependent fixed size and a number is an optional repeat count. Format 's' is always a single field because number prefix for that is special -- a field size.
"For the 's' format character, the count is interpreted as the length of the bytes, not a repeat count like for the other format characters; for example, '10s' means a single 10-byte string, while '10c' means 10 characters. " I happen to think is could use a few more words of special explanation. Looking again, I think ", which defaults to 1" after the first 'count' above, would be sufficient. We nearly always docucument defaults. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11436> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
