[Numpy-discussion] numpy uint16 array to unicode string

[Robert Kern]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 19:50, Janwillem <jwevandijk at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> I have a buffer as a numpy array of uint16. Chunks of this buffer are
> unicode characters. How do I get these chunks, say data[start:end], in a
> string?

data[sart:end].tostring().decode('UTF-16LE')

or 'UTF-16BE' if they are big-endian.

> Other chunks are 32bit integers how do I get these chunks into a numpy
> array of int32?

data[start:end].view(np.int32)

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Robert Kern