Guido pointed out that all names in the sys module have no underscore,
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsys.tex b/Doc/lib/libsys.tex
index 5cc833d..bbea623 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsys.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsys.tex
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
\code{argv} has zero length.
\end{datadesc}
-\begin{datadesc}{byte_order}
+\begin{datadesc}{byteorder}
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)
diff --git a/Python/sysmodule.c b/Python/sysmodule.c
index 99a6ff7..3026b66 100644
--- a/Python/sysmodule.c
+++ b/Python/sysmodule.c
@@ -461,14 +461,15 @@
/* Assumes that longs are at least 2 bytes long.
Should be safe! */
unsigned long number = 1;
+ char *value;
s = (char *) &number;
if (s[0] == 0)
- PyDict_SetItemString(sysdict, "byte_order",
- PyString_FromString("big"));
+ value = "big";
else
- PyDict_SetItemString(sysdict, "byte_order",
- PyString_FromString("little"));
+ value = "little";
+ PyDict_SetItemString(sysdict, "byteorder",
+ PyString_FromString(value));
}
#ifdef MS_COREDLL
PyDict_SetItemString(sysdict, "dllhandle",