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Author barry
Recipients barry, ethan.furman, mark.dickinson, ncoghlan, petr.viktorin, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, veky, vstinner
Date 2021-09-10.16:31:22
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Just to point out, struct module also uses “native” (i.e. system) byte order by default.  Any choice other than that for to_bytes() seems both arbitrary and inconsistent.

> On Sep 10, 2021, at 00:48, Petr Viktorin <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> 
> Exactly, a platform-dependent default is a bad idea. A default allows using the function without the code author & reviewer even being *aware* that there is a choice, and that is dangerous.
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