SF.net SVN: matplotlib: [4165] trunk/toolkits/basemap-testing/lib/ matplotlib/toolkits/basemap/basemap.py

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Revision: 4165
          http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/matplotlib/?rev=4165&view=rev
Author:   jswhit
Date:     2007-11-08 14:11:50 -0800 (Thu, 08 Nov 2007)

Log Message:
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specify endian-ness in dtype, instead of using byteswap()

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/toolkits/basemap-testing/lib/matplotlib/toolkits/basemap/basemap.py

Modified: trunk/toolkits/basemap-testing/lib/matplotlib/toolkits/basemap/basemap.py
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--- trunk/toolkits/basemap-testing/lib/matplotlib/toolkits/basemap/basemap.py	2007-11-08 22:06:40 UTC (rev 4164)
+++ trunk/toolkits/basemap-testing/lib/matplotlib/toolkits/basemap/basemap.py	2007-11-08 22:11:50 UTC (rev 4165)
@@ -791,10 +791,8 @@
                 # read in binary string convert into an npts by 2 
                 # numpy array (first column is lons, second is lats).
                 polystring = bdatfile.read(bytecount)
-                if not npy.little_endian:
-                    b = npy.reshape(npy.fromstring(polystring,dtype=npy.float64).byteswap(),(npts,2))
-                else:
-                    b = npy.reshape(npy.fromstring(polystring,dtype=npy.float64),(npts,2))
+                # binary data is little endian.
+                b = npy.reshape(npy.fromstring(polystring,dtype='<f8'),(npts,2))
                 # if map boundary polygon is a valid one in lat/lon
                 # coordinates (i.e. it does not contain either pole),
                 # the intersections of the boundary geometries


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