Name
fromstring
Synopsis
fromstring(data,count=None,typecode=Int)
Returns a one-dimensional array a of shape
(
count
,)
with data copied from the bytes of string
data. When
count is None,
len(
data
)
must be a multiple of
typecode’s item size, and
a’s shape is
(len(
data
)/
a
.itemsize( ),). When count is not
None,
len(
data
)
must be greater than or equal to
count
*
a
.itemsize( ), and fromstring ignores
data’s trailing bytes, if
any.
Together with methods
a
.tostring and
a
.byteswapped (covered
in the following section Section 15.6.7), function
fromstring allows binary input/output of
array objects. When you need to save arrays and
later reload them, and don’t need to use the saved
form in non-Python programs, it’s simpler and faster
to use module cPickle, covered in Chapter 11. Many experienced users prefer to use a
portable self-describing file format such as
netCDF (see http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/noon/ncmodule.html).
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