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 as 00000001 # the one on the right hand nibble or as 00010000 # the one on the left hand nibble Now scale that up to word sized numbers... Different CPUs do it differently. I can't recall which is which - I'm sure wikipedia will reveal all! :-) HTH, Alan G. Growing to hate my Netbook keyboard more by the day! And hating my PC repairer even more! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
