[New-bugs-announce] [issue14765] the struct example should give consistent results across different hardware platforms

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe report at bugs.python.org
Wed May 9 15:51:52 CEST 2012


New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang at gmail.com>:

This example [1] assumes you are using a specific platform to check it out. I am using amd64, and I get different results. To fix, I prefix the format string with '>':

before:
pack('hhl', 1, 2, 3)

after:
pack('>hhl', 1, 2, 3)

1: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/d3ddbad31b3e/Doc/library/struct.rst#l299

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 160291
nosy: docs at python, mark.dickinson, meador.inge, tshepang
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: the struct example should give consistent results across different hardware platforms
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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