pythongh-65002: Make note that null bytes are used to pad bytes (pyth…

…onGH-98635) (cherry picked from commit 8cd21c2) Co-authored-by: Stanley <[email protected]>
miss-islington · Oct 28, 2022 · cd99d7d · cd99d7d
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diff --git a/Doc/library/struct.rst b/Doc/library/struct.rst
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ platform-dependent.
 +--------+--------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+
 | Format | C Type                   | Python type        | Standard size  | Notes      |
 +========+==========================+====================+================+============+
-| ``x``  | pad byte                 | no value           |                |            |
+| ``x``  | pad byte                 | no value           |                | \(7)       |
 +--------+--------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+
 | ``c``  | :c:expr:`char`           | bytes of length 1  | 1              |            |
 +--------+--------------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------+
@@ -291,6 +291,9 @@ Notes:
    operations. See the Wikipedia page on the `half-precision floating-point
    format <half precision format_>`_ for more information.
 
+(7)
+   For padding, ``x`` inserts null bytes.
+
 
 A format character may be preceded by an integral repeat count.  For example,
 the format string ``'4h'`` means exactly the same as ``'hhhh'``.