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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1999-06-29 15:58:00 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1999-06-29 15:58:00 (GMT)
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byteswap() method: Tell *what* exception gets raised when the type
cannot be byteswapped.
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@@ -78,8 +78,9 @@ operations are applied to it.
\begin{methoddesc}[array]{byteswap}{x}
``Byteswap'' all items of the array. This is only supported for
-integer values. It is useful when reading data from a file written
-on a machine with a different byte order.
+integer values; for other types of values, \exception{RuntimeError} is
+raised. It is useful when reading data from a file written on a
+machine with a different byte order.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}[array]{fromfile}{f, n}