Linux to Windows porting question

[Peter Otten]

SHELTRAW, DANIEL wrote:

> I am trying to port some code to Windows that works fine under Linux. The
> offending line is:
> 
>     blk = fromstring(f_fid.read(BLOCK_LEN),
>     num_type).byteswapped().astype(Float32).tostring()
> 
> The error I get is:
> 
>     ValueError: string size must be a multiple of element size
> 
> Does anyone have an idea where the problem might be? BLOCK_LEN is
> specified in bytes and num_type is Int32.

Is the file f_fid opened in binary mode?

Peter