[Numpy-discussion] problems with index arrays and byte order

[Christopher Hanley]

Greetings,

The following example was uncovered by a pyfits user during testing.  It 
appears that there is a significant problem with index array handling 
byte order properly.

Example:

 >>> import numpy
 >>> a = numpy.array([1,2,3,4,5,6],'>f8')
 >>> a[3:5]
array([ 4.,  5.])
 >>> a[[3,4]]
array([  2.05531309e-320,   2.56123631e-320])
 >>> a[numpy.array([3,4])]
array([  2.05531309e-320,   2.56123631e-320])
 >>> numpy.__version__
'0.9.7.2477'

This test was conducted on a Red Hat Enterprise system.

Chris