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r82629 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-07 20:51:43 +0200 (Mi, 07 Jul 2010) | 1 line
Make comment out of an awkward note.
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r82632 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-07 21:04:36 +0200 (Mi, 07 Jul 2010) | 1 line
Turn more notes into comments.
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r82724 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-09 09:33:15 +0200 (Fr, 09 Jul 2010) | 1 line
2.7 is now stable.
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r82757 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 10:58:37 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line
Fix markup.
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r82758 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 12:23:40 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line
Emphasize role of count for Pascal string.
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r82760 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 12:39:57 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#3214: improve description of duck-typing in glossary.
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r82761 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 13:40:13 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#1434090: properly append child in expatbuilder doctype handler.
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r82762 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 13:51:06 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#8338: fix outdated class name.
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r82763 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 14:01:34 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#8456: fix signature of sqlite3.connect().
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r82798 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:23:11 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#6774: explain shutdown() behavior varying with platform.
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r82799 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:26:57 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line
Fix typo.
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r82801 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:33:39 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#9184: fix default value for "buffering" param of open().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/struct.rst b/Doc/library/struct.rst
index 6fbce6c..1834cfd 100644
--- a/Doc/library/struct.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/struct.rst
@@ -251,18 +251,16 @@
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.