Stefan van der Walt wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 05:22:42PM -0400, Christopher Hanley wrote: > >> This should work as a consistent test for bigendian: >> >> -> isBigEndian = (obj.dtype.str[0] == '>') >> > > Is this test always safe, even on big endian machines? Couldn't the > dtype.str[0] sometimes be '='? > > Regards > Stéfan > _______________________________________________ > 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. Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
