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[jira] Commented: (AVRO-492) python implementation should encode numbers as little-endian

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Jeff Hammerbacher commented on AVRO-492:
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I left this as a TODO because tests were passing. Did you see any failures with the previous encoding?

> python implementation should encode numbers as little-endian
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-492
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-492
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: python
>    Affects Versions: 1.3.1
>            Reporter: Jeff Hodges
>            Assignee: Jeff Hodges
>         Attachments: AVRO-492.patch
>
>
> The current version of the Python implementation uses big-endian encoding when writing and reading numeric data. The spec specifies that little-endian encoding should be used instead[1]. 
> [1] http://hadoop.apache.org/avro/docs/current/spec.html#binary_encode_primitive 

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