[issue6414] struct module : processor endianness descriptions misleading
Mark Dickinson
report at bugs.python.org
Tue Jul 7 13:56:19 CEST 2009
Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:
Maybe it's better to avoid the platform-specific statements altogether,
and just point out the existence of sys.byteorder for those who want to
check the endianness of the system they're currently working on.
Or maybe just mention that the x86 and AMD64 (aka x86-64) architectures
are little-endian; I'd guess that this covers a good proportion of the
processors that people are currently running Python on. People using more
exotic architectures probably already know their endianness.
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