From 92b9e8446d342a35fbea2dd004a99f2815b14f69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Carmichael <luke@deepfield.net>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 16:18:49 -0500
Subject: When reading file in chunks, buffer_size < dtype.itemsize, ensure at
 least one read

---
 numpy/lib/format.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'numpy/lib/format.py')

diff --git a/numpy/lib/format.py b/numpy/lib/format.py
index fd5496e96..c411715d8 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/format.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/format.py
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ def read_array(fp):
             # non-chunked case count < max_read_count, so only one read is
             # performed.
 
-            max_read_count = BUFFER_SIZE // dtype.itemsize
+            max_read_count = BUFFER_SIZE // min(BUFFER_SIZE, dtype.itemsize)
 
             array = numpy.empty(count, dtype=dtype)
 
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