biner wrote:
> 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!
How about sys.byteorder?
At least if you are using array.array, note the "byteswap" method:
>>> import array
>>> v = array.array('h',range(8))
>>> v
array('h', [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7])
>>> v.byteswap()
>>> v
array('h', [0, 256, 512, 768, 1024, 1280, 1536, 1792])
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