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. -- 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