Is Python type safe?

[Joe Mason]

In article <roy-0B9FC3.17134816032004 at reader1.panix.com>, Roy Smith wrote:
> I was once asked on an interview how I would tell, inside of a C 
> program, if I was on a big endian or a small endian machine.  I said I'd 
> create a union of a long and a char[4], set the long equal to 1, and see 
> which char it showed up in.  The interviewer looked shocked, thought 
> about it for a while, and finally said something like, "yeah, I guess 
> that would work".
> 
> To this day, I have no idea what other plan he had in mind.

unsigned short x = 1;
if (x == ntohs(x)) printf("Network byte order!\n");
else printf("Something else!\n");

Joe