Barry A. Warsaw <ba...@python.org> added the comment: > I'd probably say "In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess". > > As there's disagreement about the 'correct' default, make it None and require > either "big" or "little" if length > 1 (the default).
Jelle suggested that over in Discourse, and I’m not opposed, but it does mean that there’s no natural default for byteorder in int.from_bytes(). ---------- _______________________________________ 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