On 2011-01-19, Adam Skutt <ask...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 19, 9:00 am, Tim Harig <user...@ilthio.net> wrote: >> That is why I say that byte streams are essentially big endian. It is >> all a matter of how you look at it. > > It is nothing of the sort. Some byte streams are in fact, little > endian: when the bytes are combined into larger objects, the least- > significant byte in the object comes first. A lot of industrial/ > embedded stuff has byte streams with LSB leading in the sequence, CAN > comes to mind as an example.
You are correct. Point well made. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
