diff --git a/py/modstruct.c b/py/modstruct.c
index 1daa333388..0d4a45f6b6 100644
--- a/py/modstruct.c
+++ b/py/modstruct.c
@@ -206,7 +206,8 @@ STATIC void struct_pack_into_internal(mp_obj_t fmt_in, byte *p, byte* end_p, siz
             memset(p + to_copy, 0, sz - to_copy);
             p += sz;
         } else {
-            while (sz--) {
+            // If we run out of args then we just finish; CPython would raise struct.error
+            while (sz-- && i < n_args) {
                 mp_binary_set_val(fmt_type, *fmt, args[i++], &p);
             }
         }
diff --git a/tests/basics/struct_micropython.py b/tests/basics/struct_micropython.py
index 4b9dfe1378..f203a4666f 100644
--- a/tests/basics/struct_micropython.py
+++ b/tests/basics/struct_micropython.py
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ s = struct.pack("<O", o)
 o2 = struct.unpack("<O", s)
 print(o is o2[0])
 
+# pack can accept less arguments than required for the format spec
+print(struct.pack('<2I', 1))
+
 # pack and unpack pointer to a string
 # This requires uctypes to get the address of the string and instead of
 # putting this in a dedicated test that can be skipped we simply pass
diff --git a/tests/basics/struct_micropython.py.exp b/tests/basics/struct_micropython.py.exp
index 0ca95142bb..55b7b6623f 100644
--- a/tests/basics/struct_micropython.py.exp
+++ b/tests/basics/struct_micropython.py.exp
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 True
+b'\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'