From: Francis Cianfrocca Date: 2006-09-23T00:57:10+09:00 Subject: Re: 64-bit integers in network byte-order On 9/22/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote: > LITTLE_ENDIAN = ([42].pack('i')[0] == 42) > BIG_ENDIAN = !LITTLE_ENDIAN Sorry, I really can't resist this. Do you know who the big-endians and the little-endians are in literary history?