BUG #GH10425 test_categorical big-endian fix

whatsnew modified

Author: juricast

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt

@@ -79,3 +79,4 @@ Bug Fixes
 - Bug in ``ExcelReader`` when worksheet is empty (:issue:`6403`)
 - Bug in ``Table.select_column`` where name is not preserved (:issue:`10392`)
 - Bug in ``DataFrame.interpolate`` with ``axis=1`` and ``inplace=True`` (:issue:`10395`)
+- Bug in ``test_categorical`` on big-endian builds (:issue:`10425`)

pandas/tests/test_categorical.py

@@ -2883,7 +2883,7 @@ def test_to_records(self):
         # this coerces
         result = df.to_records()
         expected = np.rec.array([(0, 'a'), (1, 'b'), (2, 'c')],
-                                dtype=[('index', '<i8'), ('0', 'O')])
+                                dtype=[('index', '=i8'), ('0', 'O')])
         tm.assert_almost_equal(result, expected)
 
     def test_numeric_like_ops(self):