[issue23816] struct.unpack returns null pascal strings - [first] bug report

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson added the comment:

Specifically, I believe what's happening here is that "8s4spp" is interpreted as "8s4s1p1p", so it decodes a single byte (which can only encode an empty string) for each of the "1p" cases.

I wonder whether the struct module should raise an exception if the length byte read from the encoded data exceeds the count given in the format.

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