[Baypiggies] Determining 'endian-ness'

[Guido van Rossum]

sys.byteorder

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just an FYI and comments welcome..
>
> For those working with cross-platform projects, or working with binary files
> from platform(s) of different endian-ness ....
>
> This is one way to determine platform endian-ness using the struct module
> Not sure who the author is, but this is taken from \PythonXX\lib\wave.py
>
> # Determine endian-ness
> import struct
> if struct.pack("h", 1) == "\000\001":
>     big_endian = 1
> else:
>     big_endian = 0
>
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