From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:47:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document the byte_order value in the sys module.
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b1~462
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=68e2915fc707ca17df088447bfcb8c5811de0944;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Document the byte_order value in the sys module.
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsys.tex b/Doc/lib/libsys.tex
index 54f9493dc483..5cc833d12af5 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsys.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsys.tex
@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ It is always available.
   \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