On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 16:04, Reckoner <recko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been looking through the documentation and occasionally there is > a dtype='|S8' reference or something with a "|" in it. I don't know > what the "|" this notation means. I can't find it in the > documentation. > > This should be easy. Little help?
That character is used to specify the byte order. "|" means "native byte order". For 'S' dtypes, it doesn't make a difference; it has no byte order. -- 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://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
