[SciPy-dev] big in records fromfile

[Travis Oliphant]

Christopher Hanley wrote:

>In [1]: import scipy.base
>
>In [2]: from scipy.base import records as rec
>
>In [3]: fd = open("testdata.fits")
>
>In [4]: fd.seek(2880*2)
>
>In [5]: r = rec.fromfile(fd, formats='f8,i4,a5', shape=3, byteorder='big')
>
>In [6]: r[0]
>Out[6]: (1.2475423563769078e+190, 1023410176, 'abcde')
>
>In [7]: print r[0]
>(1.2475423563769078e+190, 1023410176, 'abcde')
>  
>
Found the problem.  I was ignoring byteorder in fromfile.  I just needed 
to pass it along to the recarray constructor and it seems to be fixed.   
I've checked in the change.

The testdata.fits file seems plenty small enough to include directly, so 
go ahead.  

-Travis