On 2018-08-20, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> When I write bytes to stdout, why are they reversed?
>
> [steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 -c "print('\xfd\x84\x04\x08')" | hexdump
> 0000000 84fd 0804 000a
> 0000005
They aren't. You're being fooled by the default output format of
hexdump. By default, it displays data as 16-byte integers in
little-endian. If you want to look at bytes, do this:
$ python2.7 -c "print('\xfd\x84\x04\x08')" | hexdump -C
00000000 fd 84 04 08 0a |.....|
00000005
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