From: ara.t.howard@... Date: 2006-09-23T01:13:26+09:00 Subject: Re: 64-bit integers in network byte-order On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Francis Cianfrocca wrote: > 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? no. do tell... -a -- in order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt. -- wei wu wei