Writing bytes to stdout reverses the bytes

[Steven D'Aprano]

When I write bytes to stdout, why are they reversed?

[steve at ando ~]$ python2.7 -c "print('\xfd\x84\x04\x08')" | hexdump
0000000 84fd 0804 000a
0000005

[steve at ando ~]$ python3.5 -c "import sys; sys.stdout.buffer.write(b'\xfd
\x84\x04\x08\n')" | hexdump
0000000 84fd 0804 000a
0000005




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Steven D'Aprano
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