On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2018-08-20, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 00:31:35 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >>> When I write bytes to stdout, why are they reversed? >> >> Answer: they aren't, use hexdump -C. > > One might think that dumping out bytes in the correct order ought to > be the default format for hexdump. Dog only know why the actual > default format was chosen. If it was 16-bit values in _octal_ you > could at least blame the PDP-11 heritage of Unix... >
It's dumping sixteen-bit units in correct order. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list