The integer formats s, S, i, I, l, L, j, and J ... For example, a 4-byte integer 0x12345678 (305419896 decimal) would be ordered natively (arranged in and handled by the CPU registers) into bytes as 0x12 0x34 0x56 0x78 # big-endian 0x78 0x56 0x34 0x12 # little-endian