From cd99d7deba894fe836f691137c309e91fcc3b88b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 03:21:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] gh-65002: Make note that null bytes are used to pad bytes (GH-98635) (cherry picked from commit 8cd21c2c5d34a5c5e857782da58d773f29ff8821) Co-authored-by: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com> --- Doc/library/struct.rst | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/struct.rst b/Doc/library/struct.rst index d12a5732fa4a0d..620f50376beb62 100644 --- a/Doc/library/struct.rst +++ b/Doc/library/struct.rst @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ platform-dependent. +--------+--------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ | Format | C Type | Python type | Standard size | Notes | +========+==========================+====================+================+============+ -| ``x`` | pad byte | no value | | | +| ``x`` | pad byte | no value | | \(7) | +--------+--------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ | ``c`` | :c:expr:`char` | bytes of length 1 | 1 | | +--------+--------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+ @@ -291,6 +291,9 @@ Notes: operations. See the Wikipedia page on the `half-precision floating-point format `_ for more information. +(7) + For padding, ``x`` inserts null bytes. + A format character may be preceded by an integral repeat count. For example, the format string ``'4h'`` means exactly the same as ``'hhhh'``.