How to tell machines endianism.

Tue Aug 15 13:31:10 EDT 2006

KraftDiner wrote:
> How can you tell if the host processor is a big or little endian
> machine?
> 

One possible way is to use the struct module to encode an integer value 
in native and little-endian modes and see if the result comes out the 
same or different.

regards
  Steve
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