Initial support for 'q' and 'Q' struct format codes: for now, only in
native mode, and only when config #defines HAVE_LONG_LONG. Standard mode
will eventually treat them as 8-byte ints across all platforms, but that
likely requires a new set of routines in longobject.c first (while
sizeof(long) >= 4 is guaranteed by C, there's nothing in C we can rely
on x-platform to hold 8 bytes of int, so we'll have to roll our own;
I'm thinking of a simple pair of conversion functions, Python long
to/from sized vector of unsigned bytes; that may be useful for GMP
conversions too; std q/Q would call them with size fixed at 8).
test_struct.py: In addition to adding some native-mode 'q' and 'Q' tests,
got rid of unused code, and repaired a non-portable assumption about
native sizeof(short) (it isn't 2 on some Cray boxes).
libstruct.tex: In addition to adding a bit of 'q'/'Q' docs (more needed
later), removed an erroneous footnote about 'I' behavior.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_struct.py b/Lib/test/test_struct.py
index c48d92d..ebd6e45 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_struct.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_struct.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from test_support import TestFailed, verbose
+from test_support import TestFailed, verbose, verify
import struct
## import pdb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
func.__name__, args)
## pdb.set_trace()
-simple_err(struct.calcsize, 'Q')
+simple_err(struct.calcsize, 'Z')
sz = struct.calcsize('i')
if sz * 3 != struct.calcsize('iii'):
@@ -93,14 +93,7 @@
'\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\300', 0),
]
-def badpack(fmt, arg, got, exp):
- return
-
-def badunpack(fmt, arg, got, exp):
- return "unpack(%s, %s) -> (%s,) # expected (%s,)" % (
- `fmt`, `arg`, `got`, `exp`)
-
-isbigendian = struct.pack('=h', 1) == '\0\1'
+isbigendian = struct.pack('=i', 1)[0] == chr(0)
for fmt, arg, big, lil, asy in tests:
if verbose:
@@ -119,3 +112,47 @@
if rev != arg and not asy:
raise TestFailed, "unpack(%s, %s) -> (%s,) # expected (%s,)" % (
`fmt`, `res`, `rev`, `arg`)
+
+# Some q/Q sanity checks.
+
+has_native_qQ = 1
+try:
+ struct.pack("q", 5)
+except struct.error:
+ has_native_qQ = 0
+
+if verbose:
+ print "Platform has native q/Q?", has_native_qQ and "Yes." or "No."
+
+simple_err(struct.pack, "Q", -1) # can't pack -1 as unsigned regardless
+simple_err(struct.pack, "q", "a") # can't pack string as 'q' regardless
+simple_err(struct.pack, "Q", "a") # ditto, but 'Q'
+
+def force_bigendian(value):
+ if isbigendian:
+ return value
+ chars = list(value)
+ chars.reverse()
+ return "".join(chars)
+
+if has_native_qQ:
+ bytes = struct.calcsize('q')
+ # The expected values here are in big-endian format, primarily because
+ # I'm on a little-endian machine and so this is the clearest way (for
+ # me) to force the code to get exercised.
+ for format, input, expected in (
+ ('q', -1, '\xff' * bytes),
+ ('q', 0, '\x00' * bytes),
+ ('Q', 0, '\x00' * bytes),
+ ('q', 1L, '\x00' * (bytes-1) + '\x01'),
+ ('Q', (1L << (8*bytes))-1, '\xff' * bytes),
+ ('q', (1L << (8*bytes-1))-1, '\x7f' + '\xff' * (bytes - 1))):
+ got = struct.pack(format, input)
+ bigexpected = force_bigendian(expected)
+ verify(got == bigexpected,
+ "%r-pack of %r gave %r, not %r" %
+ (format, input, got, bigexpected))
+ retrieved = struct.unpack(format, got)[0]
+ verify(retrieved == input,
+ "%r-unpack of %r gave %r, not %r" %
+ (format, got, retrieved, input))