how many bytes in an int

[Richard Brodie]

"Grant Edwards" <grante at visi.com> wrote in message
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>By guessing formats and calculating sizes? Or is there a way to
>ask for an N-byte integer that I missed?

If you use '<' or '>' to force endianness you automatically get 'standard'
sizes thrown in; or you can use '=' for native order. The standard sizes are
specified in the struct module documentation.