[Numpy-discussion] reading big-endian uint16 into array on little-endian machine

[Robert Kern]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:29, greg whittier <gregwh@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have files (from an external source) that contain ~10 GB of
> big-endian uint16's that I need to read into a series of arrays.

np.fromfile(filename, dtype='>i2')

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