how many bytes in an int

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-08-09, Richard Brodie <R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk> wrote:
>"Grant Edwards" <grante at visi.com> wrote in message
>
>>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.

Doh!  I don't know how many times I've read that without
realizing what it meant.  If you specify byte order explicitly
you _do_ get guaranteed lengths.

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