[Numpy-discussion] byteorder question

[Jonathan T. <jon...@st...>]

In some earlier code (at least one of) the following worked fine. I just 
want
to get a new type that is a byteswap of, say, float64 because I want to
memmap an array with a non-native byte order.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Jonathan

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Python 2.4.3 (#2, Apr 27 2006, 14:43:58)
[GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import numpy
>>> numpy.__version__
'0.9.9.2716'
>>> d=numpy.float64
>>> swapped=d.newbyteorder('big')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: descriptor 'newbyteorder' requires a 'genericscalar' object but received a 'str'
>>> swapped=d.newbyteorder('>')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: descriptor 'newbyteorder' requires a 'genericscalar' object but received a 'str'
>>>



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