On 2018-08-20, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Grant Edwards ><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2018-08-20, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 00:31:35 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> >>>> When I write bytes to stdout, why are they reversed? >>> >>> Answer: they aren't, use hexdump -C. >> >> One might think that dumping out bytes in the correct order ought to >> be the default format for hexdump. Dog only know why the actual >> default format was chosen. If it was 16-bit values in _octal_ you >> could at least blame the PDP-11 heritage of Unix... >> > > It's dumping sixteen-bit units in correct order.
I know. What I don't understand is is why 16-bit units in hex is the default. 8-bits make sense. 32-bits makes sense. 16-bits in octal makes sense (at least to those of us who first used Unix on a PDP-11). -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
