Gregory P. Smith schrieb: > The documentation for the struct module says: > > http://docs.python.org/dev/library/struct.html#module-struct > > "short is 2 bytes; int and long are 4 bytes; long long (__int64 on Windows) > is 8 bytes" > > and lists 'l' and 'L' as the pack code for a C long. > > As its implemented today, the documentation is incorrect. On an LP64 host > (pretty much any 64-bit linux, bsd or unixish thing) a long is 8 bytes. > > I assume this means there is existing code out there that expects the > current not-as-documented behavior. There is also code out there that > expects the documented behavior but behaves wrong when a 64bit Python is > used. > > I assume I should just fix the documentation and anything in Lib that uses > the struct module incorrectly (zipfile for example) rather than change the > behavior?
+1 (actually +100) from me. Thomas _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
