On Jul 21, 2011 9:23 AM, "Lisi" wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 19 July 2011 22:43:40 Alan Gauld wrote:
> > Growing to hate my Netbook keyboard more by the day!
>
> Attach another keyboard? (To keep life simple it would have to be usb,
but
> you can even get a keyboard that will roll up for carrying. I ha
From: Steven D'Aprano
Subject: Re: [Tutor] little/big endian was Re: what is 'doubleword alignment'?
To: tutor@python.org
Date: Thursday, July 21, 2011, 2:56 PM
Dave Angel wrote:
> Little-endian is the method used by the Intel processor (such as the
> Pentium). Big-endian
>Attach another keyboard? (To keep life simple it would have to be usb, but
>you can even get a keyboard that will roll up for carrying. I have neither
>seen nor tried one, so it may be no good!)
On the plus side, roll-up keyboards tend to be sealed and proof against
liquids. Plus, they are u
On Tuesday 19 July 2011 22:43:40 Alan Gauld wrote:
> Growing to hate my Netbook keyboard more by the day!
Attach another keyboard? (To keep life simple it would have to be usb, but
you can even get a keyboard that will roll up for carrying. I have neither
seen nor tried one, so it may be no go
Dave Angel wrote:
Little-endian is the method used by the Intel processor (such as the
Pentium). Big-endian is the system used by most network protocols, as
well as the 68000 and many other processors.
There used to be mainframes with various forms of middle-endian layouts.
Fortunately they
On 07/19/2011 05:43 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> and ctypes to process the data in python. It works now, although I
> still want to read more about this. Where does the distinction
> little/big endian enter this story?
That's to do with which bit in a byte/word is most signif
Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> and ctypes to process the data in python. It works now, although I
> still want to read more about this. Where does the distinction
> little/big endian enter this story?
That's to do with which bit in a byte/word is most significant.
e.g. is the decimal value 1 stored
