detect endianness of a binary with python

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Fri Jul 23 11:44:51 EDT 2010


On 7/23/10 12:44 AM, Tim Roberts wrote:
> I wouldn't use os.system with grep and evaluate the return code.  Instead
> I'd use subprocess.Popen("file<ourImage>") and read the text output of the
> commdn directly.  By parsing that string, I can extract all kinds of
> interesting information.

Small correction: subprocess.Popen(["file", our_image_filename])

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Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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