diff Doc/lib/libstruct.tex @ 4878:a9e7e0ccaa4a legacy-trunk

'I' and 'L' now always return a Python long.
author Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
date Fri, 03 Jan 1997 19:21:53 +0000
parents 3960340a3252
children 3468ea8645ca
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--- a/Doc/lib/libstruct.tex	Fri Jan 03 19:20:52 1997 +0000
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstruct.tex	Fri Jan 03 19:21:53 1997 +0000
@@ -70,9 +70,7 @@
 string (while \code{'0c'} means 0 characters).
 
 For the \code{'I'} and \code{'L'} format characters, the return
-value is a Python long integer if a Python plain integer can't
-represent the required range (note: this is dependent on the size of
-the relevant C types only, not of the sign of the actual value).
+value is a Python long integer.
 
 By default, C numbers are represented in the machine's native format
 and byte order, and properly aligned by skipping pad bytes if