Commit ad3882a2 authored by Senthil Kumaran's avatar Senthil Kumaran

Fix closes Issue11436 - Minor clarification to struct documentation for 's' format character.

parent 0b447957
......@@ -240,10 +240,11 @@ not contain whitespace though.
For the ``'s'`` format character, the count is interpreted as the length of the
bytes, not a repeat count like for the other format characters; for example,
``'10s'`` means a single 10-byte string, while ``'10c'`` means 10 characters.
For packing, the string is truncated or padded with null bytes as appropriate to
make it fit. For unpacking, the resulting bytes object always has exactly the
specified number of bytes. As a special case, ``'0s'`` means a single, empty
string (while ``'0c'`` means 0 characters).
If a count is not given, it defaults to 1. For packing, the string is
truncated or padded with null bytes as appropriate to make it fit. For
unpacking, the resulting bytes object always has exactly the specified number
of bytes. As a special case, ``'0s'`` means a single, empty string (while
``'0c'`` means 0 characters).
When packing a value ``x`` using one of the integer formats (``'b'``,
``'B'``, ``'h'``, ``'H'``, ``'i'``, ``'I'``, ``'l'``, ``'L'``,
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