From 68e2915fc707ca17df088447bfcb8c5811de0944 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:47:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document the byte_order value in the sys module.

---
 Doc/lib/libsys.tex | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsys.tex b/Doc/lib/libsys.tex
index 54f9493dc4..5cc833d12a 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
-- 
2.40.0