[Numpy-tickets] [NumPy] #449: Swaping byteorder in recarrays with multidimensional fields doesn't work

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#449: Swaping byteorder in recarrays with multidimensional fields doesn't work
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 Reporter:  faltet  |       Owner:  somebody
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new     
 Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:          
Component:  Other   |     Version:  devel   
 Severity:  normal  |    Keywords:          
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 When swaping the byteorder of a recarray with multidimensional fields,
 those are not swapped at all as can be seen in:

 {{{
 In [45]:r=numpy.array([(1,(0,1,2))], dtype="i2,3i2")
 In [46]:r.byteswap()
 Out[46]:
 array([(256, [0, 1, 2])],
       dtype=[('f0', '<i2'), ('f1', '<i2', 3)])
 }}}

 Curiously, this seems to work fine with nested recarrays (without
 multidimensional columns, of course):

 {{{
 In [47]:mydescriptor = numpy.dtype([('x', 'f4'),('y', 'f4'),('nested',
 [('i', 'i2'),('j','i2')])])
 In [48]:nra=numpy.array([(1.0, 2.0, (1,2)), (2.1, 3.2, (3,2))],
 dtype=mydescriptor)
 In [49]:nra.byteswap()
 Out[49]:
 array([(4.6006029882248069e-41, 8.9683101716788293e-44, (256, 512)),
        (2.7156489580261977e+23, -428443648.0, (768, 512))],
       dtype=[('x', '<f4'), ('y', '<f4'), ('nested', [('i', '<i2'), ('j',
 '<i2')])])

 }}}

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