On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > could you multiply the numeric field by -1, sort, then put it back > Yeah, that works great for my situation. Thanks Chris!
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: > While that may work for this users case, that would not work for all dtypes. > Some, such as timedelta, datetime and strings would not be able to be > multiplied by a number. > This is the reason why I thought there might be such a feature. > Would be an interesting feature to add, but I am not certain if the negative > sign notation would be best. Is it possible for a named field to start with > a negative sign? > I'm not sure about what is allowable in names, but I would be interested in getting involved with the NumPy project by helping to add this feature. I'll check out the contributing doc. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
