Stefan van der Walt wrote: > > Ah, yes, I was confused. What I meant to ask was, couldn't > dtype.str[0] sometimes be '|'? > >
That is true. It would happen for an array of strings. >>> a = n.array(['1','2','3','4']) >>> a.dtype.str[0] '|' I haven't needed to worry about that case in terms of doing byte swapping. Chris _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion