Ignore whitespace between formats (not internal to a count+format).

Doc/lib/libstruct.tex

@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ \section{Built-in Module \sectcode{struct}}
 A format character may be preceded by an integral repeat count; e.g.\
 the format string \code{'4h'} means exactly the same as \code{'hhhh'}.
 
+Whitespace characters between formats are ignored; a count and its
+format must not contain whitespace though.
+
 For the \code{'s'} format character, the count is interpreted as the
 size of the string, not a repeat count like for the other format
 characters; e.g. \code{'10s'} means a single 10-byte string, while

Doc/libstruct.tex

@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ \section{Built-in Module \sectcode{struct}}
 A format character may be preceded by an integral repeat count; e.g.\
 the format string \code{'4h'} means exactly the same as \code{'hhhh'}.
 
+Whitespace characters between formats are ignored; a count and its
+format must not contain whitespace though.
+
 For the \code{'s'} format character, the count is interpreted as the
 size of the string, not a repeat count like for the other format
 characters; e.g. \code{'10s'} means a single 10-byte string, while

Modules/structmodule.c

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 #include "mymath.h"
 
 #include <limits.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
 
 
 /* Exception */
@@ -981,6 +982,8 @@ calcsize(fmt, f)
 	s = fmt;
 	size = 0;
 	while ((c = *s++) != '\0') {
+		if (isspace(c))
+			continue;
 		if ('0' <= c && c <= '9') {
 			num = c - '0';
 			while ('0' <= (c = *s++) && c <= '9') {
@@ -1075,6 +1078,8 @@ struct_pack(self, args)
 	res = restart = PyString_AsString(result);
 
 	while ((c = *s++) != '\0') {
+		if (isspace(c))
+			continue;
 		if ('0' <= c && c <= '9') {
 			num = c - '0';
 			while ('0' <= (c = *s++) && c <= '9')
@@ -1179,6 +1184,8 @@ struct_unpack(self, args)
 	str = start;
 	s = fmt;
 	while ((c = *s++) != '\0') {
+		if (isspace(c))
+			continue;
 		if ('0' <= c && c <= '9') {
 			num = c - '0';
 			while ('0' <= (c = *s++) && c <= '9')