Vedran Čačić <ved...@gmail.com> added the comment: > choose one for the default so that default encoding/decoding will work cross > platform. I think "little" is the most common (intel and arm).
Raymond, please don't do this. We already have a "sensible default" in a network context, and it is big endian. Having another "sensible default" opposite to the previous one is really no way to ensure interoperability. (https://xkcd.com/927/ only becomes more ridiculous when the number in question is 2.:) I don't want to think about whether the way machines A and B exchange data can be called "a network" or not. Of course, having the byteorder optional when there's only one (unsigned) byte is good. ---------- nosy: +veky _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue45155> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
