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Kirill Smelkov
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Georg Brandl
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Emphasize role of count for Pascal string.
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@@ -259,18 +259,16 @@ then :exc:`struct.error` is raised.
In 3.0, some of the integer formats wrapped out-of-range values and
raised :exc:`DeprecationWarning` instead of :exc:`struct.error`.
The ``'p'`` format character encodes a "Pascal string", meaning a short
variable-length string stored in a fixed number of bytes. The count is the total
number of bytes stored. The first byte stored is the length of the string, or
255, whichever is smaller. The bytes of the string follow. If the string
passed in to :func:`pack` is too long (longer than the count minus 1), only the
leading count-1 bytes of the string are stored. If the string is shorter than
count-1, it is padded with null bytes so that exactly count bytes in all are
used. Note that for :func:`unpack`, the ``'p'`` format character consumes count
bytes, but that the string returned can never contain more than 255 bytes.
variable-length string stored in a *fixed number of bytes*, given by the count.
The first byte stored is the length of the string, or 255, whichever is
smaller. The bytes of the string follow. If the string passed in to
:func:`pack` is too long (longer than the count minus 1), only the leading
``count-1`` bytes of the string are stored. If the string is shorter than
``count-1``, it is padded with null bytes so that exactly count bytes in all
are used. Note that for :func:`unpack`, the ``'p'`` format character consumes
``count`` bytes, but that the string returned can never contain more than 255
bytes.
For the ``'?'`` format character, the return value is either :const:`True` or
:const:`False`. When packing, the truth value of the argument object is used.
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