[Numpy-discussion] read not byte aligned records

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Jerome Kieffer <Jerome.Kieffer at esrf.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> If you want to play with 10 bits data-blocks, read 5 bytes and work with 4 entries at a time...

NumPy arrays don't have any support for sub-byte alignment. So if you
want to handle such data, you either need to write some manual
packing/unpacking code (using bitshift operators, or perhaps
np.unpackbits, or whatever), or use another library designed for doing
this. You may find Cython useful to write the core packing/unpacking,
since bit-by-bit processing in a for loop is not something that
CPython is super well suited to.

Good luck,
-n

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