doc page for struct.unpack_from has a spurious argument

[altoplano]

Documentation

The page:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/struct.html

describes:

struct.unpack_from(format, /, buffer, offset=0)
    Unpack from buffer starting at position offset, according to the format string format. The result is a tuple even if it contains exactly one item. The buffer’s size in bytes, starting at position offset, must be at least the size required by the format, as reflected by [calcsize()](https://docs.python.org/3/library/struct.html#struct.calcsize). A negative offset counts from the end of buffer.

pretty sure the second argument is not real and the first line should read:

struct.unpack_from(format, buffer, offset=0)

This would match the calls made to the struct.unpack_from function in the test code at:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.14/Lib/test/test_struct.py

;;peter aka altoplano

Linked PRs

• gh-155406: Fix struct.unpack_from documentation signature #155408

[picnixz]

This is the syntax to indicate position-only parameters