[Python-Dev] New Unicode Snapshot

Tim Peters tim_one@email.msn.com
Tue, 8 Feb 2000 01:42:45 -0500


[M.-A. Lemburg]
> ...
> Also new in this snapshot is configuration code which figures
> out the byte order on the installation machine... I looked
> everywhere in the Python source code but couldn't find any
> hint whether this was already done in some place,

There's a tiny bit of inline code for this in the "host byte order" case of
structmodule.c's function whichtable.  It's easy to figure out, so probably
better to copy that than create new ifdef symbols for autoconf to screw up
<wink>.