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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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#3214: improve description of duck-typing in glossary.
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#8564: update docs on integrating doctest/unittest with unittest(2) test discovery.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/struct.rst b/Doc/library/struct.rst
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@@ -263,14 +263,14 @@
string (while ``'0c'`` means 0 characters).
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 characters.
+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 characters.
For the ``'P'`` format character, the return value is a Python integer or long
integer, depending on the size needed to hold a pointer when it has been cast to