[issue3132] implement PEP 3118 struct changes
Meador Inge
report at bugs.python.org
Thu May 20 19:17:42 CEST 2010
Meador Inge <meadori at gmail.com> added the comment:
> As a separate issue, I notice that the new 'T{}' code doesn't respect
> multiplicities, e.g., as in 'H3T{HHL}'. Is that
> intentional/desirable?
That could have been an oversight on my part. I don't see any immediate reason why we wouldn't allow it.
> But now I've got a new open issue: how much padding should be
> inserted/expected (for pack/unpack respectively) between the 'B' and
> the 'T{...}' in a struct format string of the form 'BT{...}'?
Doesn't that depend on what is in the '...'? For example, I would expect the same padding for 'BT{I}' and 'BI'. In general, I would expect the padding to be the same for 'x+T{y+}' and 'x+y+'. The 'T{...}'s are merely organizational, right?
> I'm tempted to suggest that for native mode, changing the specifier be
> disallowed entirely.
I am tempted to suggest that we just go back to having one specifier at the beginning of the string :). Things seem to be getting complicate without any clear benefits.
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