[Numpy-discussion] How do I change endianess?

Christopher Hanley chanley at stsci.edu
Mon Feb 25 13:57:05 EST 2008


debl2 at verizon.net wrote:
> I would like to change the Endianess of a large of data written on PC so I can process it on a Solaris box.  I see that the dtype.str attribute is read-only.
> 
> TIA
> 
> David Lees
> 
> 

You can use the byteswap method to change the byte order of your array.

 >>> obj = obj.byteswap()


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