On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 17:17, Brennan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My app reads in one or more float arrays from a binary file. > > Sometimes due to network timeouts etc the array is not read correctly. > > What would be the best way of checking the validity of the data? > > Would some sort of checksum approach be a good idea? > Would that work with an array of floating point values? > Or are checksums more for int,byte,string type data?
Just use a generic hash on the file's bytes (ignoring their format). MD5 is sufficient for these purposes. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
