In computing, there are two primary byte order formats: big-endian and little-endian. Big-endian is used primarily for networking (e.g., IP addresses are transmitted in big-endian) whereas little-endian is used mainly by computers with microprocessors.

Here is an example (using 32-bit integers in hex format):

Little-Endian: 00 6D F4 C9 = 7,206,089

Big-Endian:    C9 F4 6D 00 = 3,388,239,104

Your job is to write a function that switches the byte order of a given integer. The function should take an integer n for the first argument, and the bit-size of the integer for the second argument. The bit size must be a power of 2 greater than or equal to 8. Your function should return a None value if the integer is negative, if the specified bit size is not a power of 2 that is 8 or larger, or if the integer is larger than the specified bit size can handle. In this kata, assume that all integers are unsigned (non-negative) and that all input arguments are integers (no floats, strings, None/nil values, etc.). Remember that you will need to account for padding of null (00) bytes.

Hint: bitwise operators are very helpful! :)

Difficulty: EASY
Starter code: def switch_endian(n, bits):
	

Solutions:
def switch_endian(n, bits):
	out = 0
	while bits > 7:
		bits -= 8
		out <<= 8
		out |= n & 255
		n >>= 8
	return None if n or bits else out


def switch_endian(n, bits):
	if not (0 <= n < 2 ** bits and bits == 2 ** (bits.bit_length() - 1)):
		return
	x = f'{n:0{bits}b}'
	return int(''.join((x[i - 8:i] for i in range(bits, 0, -8))), 2)


def switch_endian(n, bits):
	if not (bits >= 8 and bits & bits - 1 == 0 and (bits >= n.bit_length())):
		return None
	return int.from_bytes(n.to_bytes(bits // 8, 'little'), 'big')


switch_endian = lambda n, bits: int.from_bytes(n.to_bytes(bits // 8, 'big'), 'little') if bits % 8 == 0 and bits >= 8 and (n.bit_length() <= bits) else None


def switch_endian(n, bits):
	if 2 ** bits <= n or bits % 8 != 0 or bits < 8:
		return None
	xn = bits // 4
	x = format(n, 'x').zfill(xn)
	lst = [x.upper()[i:i + 2] for i in range(0, len(x), 2)]
	s = ''.join(lst[::-1])
	ans = int(s, 16)
	return ans if len(bin(ans)[2:]) <= bits else None


def switch_endian(n, bits):
	if n < 0 or bits & bits - 1 or bits < 8 or (n >= 2 ** bits):
		return None
	result = 0
	for _ in range(bits // 8):
		result = result << 8 | n & 255
		n >>= 8
	return result


import re
import math

def switch_endian(n, bits):
	number_in_hex = hex(n)
	length = len(number_in_hex) - 2
	result = int(bits / 4)
	x = math.log(bits, 2).is_integer()
	if x == False:
		return None
	if length > result:
		return None
	if length <= result:
		diff = result - length
		number_in_hex = number_in_hex.replace('0x', '0' * diff)
		res_list = re.findall('[\\da-z]{2}[^\\da-z]*', number_in_hex)
		res_list = res_list[::-1]
		number_in_hex = ''.join(res_list)
		return int('0x' + number_in_hex, 0)


from math import log2

def switch_endian(n, bits):
	if bits < 8 or 2 ** int(log2(bits)) != bits or 2 ** bits - 1 < n:
		return None
	s = '{:X}'.format(n).zfill(bits // 4)
	r = ''
	for i in range(0, len(s), 2):
		r = s[i:i + 2] + r
	return int(r, 16)