[Python-Dev] uuid module - byte order issue

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Oren Tirosh wrote:
> Compatibility with Windows "GUIDs" may be one of the most important
> use cases for the UUID module. It's important to resolve this or users
> will have unpleasant surprises. I did.
[...]
> alternatives:
>
> 1. Default is big endian byte order. Little endian is explicit.
> 2. Default is native byte order. Little endian and big endian are explicit.
> 3. No default. Little endian and big endian are both explicit.

I implemented and committed the first alternative above (as a new
attribute, 'bytes_le'), shortly before the freeze.


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