In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) You can't put 100000 into a half-word. The limit is 2**16 > or 65535. On Python 2.5 I get: Yes, I know. I used that example to illustrate the problem. If a value does not fit a format then Python should report that consistently, independent of whether a byte-order indication is explicit or implicit. Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list