Commit 4aa5f6f1 authored by Mark Dickinson's avatar Mark Dickinson

Issue #1789: clarify that the 'size' column in struct docs refers to standard size.

parent b3224875
......@@ -156,7 +156,11 @@ Format Characters
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Format characters have the following meaning; the conversion between C and
Python values should be obvious given their types:
Python values should be obvious given their types. The 'Standard size' column
refers to the size of the packed value in bytes when using standard size; that
is, when the format string starts with one of ``'<'``, ``'>'``, ``'!'`` or
``'='``. When using native size, the size of the packed value is
platform-dependent.
+--------+-------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+
| Format | C Type | Python type | Standard size | Notes |
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