struct.calcsize() giving odd results - Solved

[John Purser]

Grant,

That got it.  Thanks it was driving me nuts.  Time to go back and RTFM some
more.

John Purser


"Grant Edwards" <grante at visi.com> wrote in message
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> In article <3Rvj8.27781$af7.23161 at rwcrnsc53>, John Purser wrote:
>
> [regarding struct size that isn't what he wants]
>
> > And that's it.  I tucked this into a variable (fmt) and ran it through
> > struct.calcsize(fmt) and got 190.  I assumed I'd made a typo so I went
over
> > my string.  No problems there.  So I assumed I added it up wrong in the
> > first place.  Nope, 180 bytes.
>
> By default, struct will use the alignment/packing conventions
> used by the native C compiler.  If you want something else,
> you've got to specify it.
>
> Try adding a "=" to the front of your format string.
>
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