Why can’t I compare a two-byte slice directly with a hexadecimal value?
I'm writing a fast parser for Sony RAW image files and need to detect the two-byte byte-order marker used in the header. My original code compared `data[:2]` with…
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Why Can’t I Compare a Two-Byte Slice Directly With a Hex Value?
I'm writing a Python library to quickly parse RAW files from a Sony camera. To detect the file's byte order, I originally used this code:nn```pythonndef check_for_endian(data: bytes) ->…