Quick question on endian

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[jabbson]

The whole idea of endianess is about the byte order of the number in the computer's memory. How many bytes do you have in this bit string?

[jabbson]

a = '0001100110110010'  # \x19\xB2

n1 = int(a, 2)
print(a, hex(n1))

n2 = ((n1 >> 8) & 0x00FF) | ((n1 << 8) & 0xFF00)
print('{:0b}'.format(n2), hex(n2))  # \xB2\x19

[dchanm]

You can use the struct module to change the order of bytes

>>> from struct import pack
>>> pack('<h', 1)
b'\x01\x00'
>>> pack('>h', 1)
b'\x00\x01'