Oct. 1, 2004
7:43 a.m.
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 09:43, John Hunter wrote:
The root of the problem appears to be
from RandomArray import standard_normal standard_normal(10) array([ 5.31046164e-315, 1.57997427e-314, I've have this gnawing feeling I've seen this before, but I can't remember ....
Those values look suspiciously like what one sees if one reads a big-endian Float as little-endian or vice versa. I saw similar numbers recently when using pytables on a big-endian HDF5 (which generated a bug report for numarray if you recall). Is the Opteron big-endian?