On Feb 25, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Robert Kern <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In distarray/local/format.py:
> 
> > +module docstring for ``numpy.lib.format``.
> > +
> > +"""
> > +
> > +import io
> > +import six
> > +
> > +import numpy as np
> > +from numpy.lib.format import write_array_header_1_0
> > +from numpy.lib.utils import safe_eval
> > +from numpy.compat import asbytes
> > +
> > +from distarray.utils import _raise_nie
> > +
> > +
> > +MAGIC_PREFIX = asbytes('\x93DARRY')
> FWIW, I still think I made a small mistake by using b'\x93NUMPY' as the magic number. I should have followed PNG's example more closely b'\x93NPY\r\n\x1a\n'. But it doesn't really matter. Who uses DOS these days anyways?
> 
And in single line, you have doomed the next project that comes in the door.  "Yes, we were wondering if you could build a visualization system for our instrument...  It runs DOS and has a maximum of 640MB of ram available."

eric

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