struct module...

[Richard Brodie]

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> wrote in message
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> > did someone extend struct module to manage not fixed lengh of
> > array.
>
> Doesn't seem worth the confusion or bother to me.

The p format does seem to have rather curious semantics; I would
have thought the 'least surprising' thing would be for it to take a string
and store it as a counted length string.

'B?(1)c' looks like ugly syntax though. What about *p for an implied
length byte-counted string?