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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-08-14 15:47:30 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-08-14 15:47:30 (GMT)
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Document the byte_order value in the sys module.
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\code{argv} has zero length.
\end{datadesc}
+\begin{datadesc}{byte_order}
+ An indicator of the native byte order. This will have the value
+ \code{'big'} on big-endian (most-signigicant byte first) platforms,
+ and \code{'little'} on little-endian (least-significant byte first)
+ platforms.
+ \versionadded{2.0}
+\end{datadesc}
+
\begin{datadesc}{builtin_module_names}
A tuple of strings giving the names of all modules that are compiled
into this Python interpreter. (This information is not available in