On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:49:16AM -0400, Christopher Hanley wrote: > >> -> isBigEndian = (obj.dtype.str[0] == '>') > > > > Is this test always safe, even on big endian machines? Couldn't the > > dtype.str[0] sometimes be '='? > > > The test does would on big endian machines. What wouldn't work would be > something like this: > > -> isBigEndian = (obj.dtype.byteorder == '>') > > On a big-endian machine you would get '=' in this case.
Ah, yes, I was confused. What I meant to ask was, couldn't dtype.str[0] sometimes be '|'? Cheers Stéfan _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
