[SciPy-user] dtype

[Maik Trömel]

Hello,

thanks for help. Now it works. Is there a posibility to make a byteswap 
while reading in with "fromstring". Or do I have to make it with 
"arrh.byteswap()"?

Greetings
Maik


Robert Kern wrote:

>Maik Trömel wrote:
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>>Hello list,
>>
>>i've got a question concerning datatypes.
>>I'm importing a file filled with Data with the lenght of 2 bytes via
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>>arrh = numpy.fromstring(radFile, dtype = 'S2', count = 900*900)
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>>Now I want to convert the data via
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>>value = ord(arr[n][m][0]) * 256 + ord(arr[n][m][1])
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>>But if the value in the array is NULL i get an Error:
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>>IndexError: string index out of range
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>
>(A) In order for us to help you debug some code, you need to distill it down to
>the smallest code that actually displays the error, and then provide us the
>actual code.
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>(B) In this case, there's a better way. See below.
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>>So I think I have to choose another dtype. But I don't have any idea 
>>which one.
>>Probably someone has an idea.
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>arrh = numpy.fromstring(radFile, dtype=numpy.int16, count=900*900)
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>You don't need to do any other conversions. You may have to pay attention to
>byteswapping depending on the endianness of your platform, though.
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