From 514e1f74f8aec7da732a181a071afc060ef1669e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Travis Oliphant <oliphant@enthought.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:13:31 +0000
Subject: Fix numarray.fromstring

---
 numpy/numarray/functions.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'numpy/numarray/functions.py')

diff --git a/numpy/numarray/functions.py b/numpy/numarray/functions.py
index 329e08024..afb5ce875 100644
--- a/numpy/numarray/functions.py
+++ b/numpy/numarray/functions.py
@@ -270,8 +270,8 @@ def fromstring(datastring, type=None, shape=None, typecode=None, dtype=None):
     if shape is None:
         count = -1
     else:
-        count = N.product(shape)*dtype.itemsize
-    res = N.fromstring(datastring, count=count)
+        count = N.product(shape)
+    res = N.fromstring(datastring, dtype=dtype, count=count)
     if shape is not None:
         res.shape = shape
     return res
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