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Author martin.panter
Recipients mark.dickinson, martin.panter, skrah
Date 2016-04-13.10:21:19
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This behaviour seems to be documented, although it is not very explicit, and a bit surprising to me. See the third note at the end of <https://docs.python.org/3/library/struct.html#byte-order-size-and-alignment>: “align the end . . . with a repeat count of zero”, and the example

>>> pack('llh0l', 1, 2, 3)
b'\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x03\x00\x00'
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