tree e411af973b408de343c6fbda36ec7c955fc80d02
parent bd4435abcc272cab7f97bd483410fac5ab14cc5f
author Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> 873443319 +0000
committer Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> 873443319 +0000
HG:extra convert_revision:svn%3A6015fed2-1504-0410-9fe1-9d1591cc4771/python/branches/legacy-trunk%408718

Contribution by Hannu Krosing (with some changes).

Added 'p' format character for Pascal string (i.e. leading length
byte).  This uses the count prefix line 's' does, except that the
count includes the length byte; i.e. '10p' takes 10 bytes packed but
has space for a length byte and 9 data bytes.