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Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	Alexander.Belopolsky, MrJean1, ajaksu2, barry, benjamin.peterson, inducer, mark.dickinson, meador.inge, noufal, pitrou, teoliphant
Date	2010-05-19.19:56:16
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Message-id	<1274298977.42.0.54871868095.issue3132@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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One more design question. For something like: '<HT{>H}H', what endianness should be used when packing/unpacking the last 'H'? Should the switch to '>' within the embedded struct be regarded as local to the struct? With your patch, I get: >>> pack('<HT{>H}H', 1, (2,), 3) b'\x01\x00\x00\x02\x00\x03'

One more design question.  For something like: '<HT{>H}H', what endianness should be used when packing/unpacking the last 'H'?  Should the switch to '>' within the embedded struct be regarded as local to the struct?

With your patch, I get:

>>> pack('<HT{>H}H', 1, (2,), 3)
b'\x01\x00\x00\x02\x00\x03'

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-05-19 19:56:17	mark.dickinson	set	recipients: + mark.dickinson, barry, teoliphant, pitrou, inducer, ajaksu2, MrJean1, benjamin.peterson, noufal, meador.inge, Alexander.Belopolsky
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