Russell, This should work as a consistent test for bigendian:
-> isBigEndian = (obj.dtype.str[0] == '>') Also, I have ported numarray's numdisplay to numpy if you would like to directly display an array in DS9. We haven't done an official release yet (sometime soon) but I can forward you a copy if you are interested. Chris _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion