How to get an integer from a sequence of bytes

[Carlos Nepomuceno]

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> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 15:41:41 -0700 
> Subject: Re: How to get an integer from a sequence of bytes 
> From: drsalists at gmail.com 
> To: python-list at python.org 
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> Today though, it would be difficult to sell a conventional (Von  
> Neumann) computer that didn't have 8 bit bytes.  Quantum computers  
> would still sell if they were odd this way - they're going to be really  
> different anyway. 

Nowadays it would be a hard task to find a Von Neumann architecture machine.

Most of current CPUs are variants of the Harvard architecture: they separate instructions from data at the cache level.