Python in a Nutshell

Name

byteswapped

Synopsis

                        a.byteswapped( )

Returns a new array object b with the same type code and shape as a. Each element of b is copied from the corresponding element of a, inverting the order of the bytes in the value. This swapping transforms each value from little-endian to big-endian or vice versa. Together with function fromstring and method a .tostring, this helps when you have binary data from one kind of machine and need them for the other kind (for example, Intel platforms are little-endian, while Sun platforms are big-endian).