On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:02 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
>

> 1) This problem is specific to 2.6 and 2.5 works.

Yes

> 2) It's on Intel hardware?

Yes.

Here is a minimal test which shows the problem:

import numpy as np
assert np.dtype('<f4').isnative

So what does dtype(float32).descr and dtype(float32).byteorder show?

Chuck