On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 12:06 PM <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote: > > ... Or, even better, to be able to read off a hex dump and see E8 03 > > and instantly read it as "1,000 little-endian". > > 59535 big endian. Warningm flamebait ahead: Who thinks in little > endian? (I was raised on 6502s and 680XX CPUs; 8080s and Z80s always > did things backwards.)
I do, because most of the file formats I've had to delve into have been little-endian. It seems to be far more common to have undocumented file formats created by Windows programs than, say, undocumented network packet formats (which would use network byte order, naturally). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list