Hello, I was fooling around with python's struct lib, looking on how we'd unpack some data. I was a little confused by its behavior: Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 22 2009, 15:33:10) [GCC 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import struct >>> struct.calcsize('BhhhhB') 11 >>> struct.calcsize('@BhhhhB') 11 >>> struct.calcsize('<BhhhhB') 10 >>> struct.calcsize('>BhhhhB') 10
I would have expected calcsize('BhhhhB') to be either 10 or 12 (padding), but 11? Is there a simple explanation of what is going on here? Just a curiosity. This is on a x86_64, but have seen the same on i686. Ideas? Thanks. Pete -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list