dtype='|S8' -- what does vertical bar mean?
24 Mar
2010
24 Mar
'10
8:04 a.m.
Hi,
I've been looking through the documentation and occasionally there is a dtype='|S8' reference or something with a "|" in it. I don't know what the "|" this notation means. I can't find it in the documentation.
This should be easy. Little help?
thanks in advance.
24 Mar
24 Mar
8:12 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 16:04, Reckoner reckoner@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I've been looking through the documentation and occasionally there is a dtype='|S8' reference or something with a "|" in it. I don't know what the "|" this notation means. I can't find it in the documentation.
This should be easy. Little help?
That character is used to specify the byte order. "|" means "native byte order". For 'S' dtypes, it doesn't make a difference; it has no byte order.
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Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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