Hello, I am using a program that has to read binary data from files coming from different machines. The file are always written with big endian. I am using the struct module to read the data and it is fine because I can specify in the format if the data are to be read with big or small endian convention.
I would like to use the array module instead of struct because it is suppose to be faster for big arrays. However, this module does not provide a format specifier to say if the data are writtent with big or small endian. The result is that it works on big-endian machine and not on small-endian machine. I would like to have a test to tell me if the current machine is using big or small endian, this way I could use the array module in the first case and the *slower* struct module on the second. I looked but did not find. Is there a python function to know that? Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
