Newbie Q: (NumPy) how to write an array in a file ?

[Johann Hibschman]

Alex Martelli writes:

> "binary format" is *NOT* portable.  If you write binary data on a
> big-endian machine, you can't just transparently re-read it on a
> little-endian machine -- it's even worse for floating-point data
> in different formats!

There's a CDF module out there somewhere, which sounds like precisely
what you need, if portability is important.  See

http://starship.python.net/crew/hinsen/netcdf.html

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Johann Hibschman                           johann at physics.berkeley.edu