Dear Marc,

Thanks for taking time to answer that question. I understand that this
comes from the native formating i specified,
>>> calcsize('L')
8
>>> calcsize('<L')
4

So if written with < or = it is 4 bytes, clear.

However, as my system is a little endian one(e.g.
sys.byteorder=little), whats the difference between native and little
?  I understand that Alignment is not performed on the Native format,
a) but why is only L/l shows a difference compared to the
table(docu)/formated output in the in native format , while the rest
agrees one to one ?
b) Where could I look up/find such a native format table ?

Probably you can answer that easily to me, I'm just really,really puzzled.

Hannes

for x in list:
... 	print x,calcsize(x),calcsize('<'+x)
...
x 1 1
c 1 1
b 1 1
B 1 1
? 1 1
h 2 2
H 2 2
i 4 4
I 4 4
l 8 4
L 8 4
q 8 8
Q 8 8
f 4 4
d 8 8
s 1 1
p 1 1

'little'

On 7/13/10, Mark Dickinson <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> Please read the three sentences directly preceding that table and tell me
> whether they clear this up for you.
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