On 20Aug2018 00:31, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
When I write bytes to stdout, why are they reversed?[steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 -c "print('\xfd\x84\x04\x08')" | hexdump 0000000 84fd 0804 000a 0000005 [steve@ando ~]$ python3.5 -c "import sys; sys.stdout.buffer.write(b'\xfd \x84\x04\x08\n')" | hexdump 0000000 84fd 0804 000a 0000005
They're not. Hexdump is presenting your bytes as little endian 2 byte words. So your leading 0xfd is the _low_ bytes of the 2 bytes word.
Try "od -c" instead. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
