[Numpy-discussion] difficulties with numpy.tofile()

[Charles R Harris]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Catherine Moroney <
catherine.m.moroney at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm having problems writing a 2-dimensional numpy array out to a binary
> file using the "tofile" method.  The call to "tofile" appears to
> succeed,
> but when I check the length of the binary file I find that it's longer
> than what is expected, given the calculation of nrows*ncolumns*nbytes.
>

You might find the following attributes useful in debugging this.

In [1]: x = ones((2,2))

In [2]: x.size
Out[2]: 4

In [3]: x.itemsize
Out[3]: 8

In [4]: x.nbytes
Out[4]: 32

In [5]: x.dtype
Out[5]: dtype('float64')

In [6]: x.tofile('foo.dat')

In [7]: ls -l foo.dat
-rw-rw-r-- 1 charris charris 32 2008-11-16 22:43 foo.dat

The file should have the same size as x.nbytes. What operating system are
you using?

Chuck
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