[Numpy-discussion] numpy endian question

Russell E. Owen rowen at cesmail.net
Fri Apr 27 12:33:46 EDT 2007


In article <46311822.2010206 at stsci.edu>,
 Christopher Hanley <chanley at stsci.edu> wrote:

> Russell,
> 
> This should work as a consistent test for bigendian:
> 
> -> isBigEndian = (obj.dtype.str[0] == '>')
> 
> Also, I have ported numarray's numdisplay to numpy if you would like to 
> directly display an array in DS9.  We haven't done an official release 
> yet (sometime soon) but I can forward you a copy if you are interested.

I would very much like a copy. I've never heard of numdisplay before but 
am always interested in code that can talk to DS9.

I'm porting RO.DS9. it works but has some rather ugly bits of code in it 
to deal with the many vagaries of xpa and ds9.

-- Russell




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