diff Doc/lib/libarray.tex @ 11075:36e258b57750 legacy-trunk

byteswap() method: Tell *what* exception gets raised when the type cannot be byteswapped.
author Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
date Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:58:00 +0000
parents bebe9830b33c
children e82e82b3b9ad
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--- a/Doc/lib/libarray.tex	Tue Jun 29 15:53:52 1999 +0000
+++ b/Doc/lib/libarray.tex	Tue Jun 29 15:58:00 1999 +0000
@@ -78,8 +78,9 @@
 
 \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}