[Python-Dev] How to test this?

[Martin v. Löwis]

Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

> It appears the database itself accounts for the endianness of the file.  I
> copied my test db file from my Mac to a Linux PC.  struct.unpack("=l",
> f.read(4)) showed different values on the two systems (0x61561 vs
> 0x61150600) but bsddb185 on both systems could read the file.  This is a
> very nice property of Berkeley DB in general.

That's good to hear. I thought I understood a report on the Subversion
mailing list that you can't move databases across endianesses, but
that might have been an unrelated issue.

Regards,
Martin