how to get endianess in Java or python?

Question

In C I could the Endianess of the machine by the following method. how would I get using a python or Java program?. In Ja

Answer 1

You can use sys.byteorder:

>>> import sys
>>> print sys.byteorder
'little'

Or you can get endianness by yourself with a little help of the built-in struct module:

import struct

def is_little():
    packed = struct.pack("i", 1)
    return packed[0] == "\x01";

print is_little()

That was all Python of course.