Travis Oliphant wrote: > Sebastian Haase wrote: >> Hi, >> Does numpy.ascontiguousarray(arr) "fix" the byteorder when arr is >> non-native byteorder ? >> >> If not, what functions does ? >> > > It can if you pass in a data-type with the right byteorder (or use a > native built-in data-type). > > In NumPy, it's the data-type that carries the "byte-order" > information. So, there are lot's of ways to "fix" the byte-order. > So then the question is: what is the easiest way to say: give me the equivalent type of dtype, but with byteorder '<' (or '=') !? I would be cumbersome (and ugly ;-) ) if one would have to "manually assemble" such a construct every time ...
> Of course there is still the difference between "fixing" the byte-order > and simply "viewing" the memory in the correct byte-order. The former > physically flips bytes around, the latter just flips them on calculation > and presentation. I understand. I need something that I can feed into my C routines that are to dumb to handle non-contiguous or byte-swapped data . - Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
