[Numpy-discussion] Deprecate chararray [was [SciPy-dev] Plea for help]

2009-08-20 Thread David Goldsmith
--- On Thu, 8/20/09, Christopher Hanley chan...@stsci.edu wrote: I'd like to respectfully request that we move any discussion of what  to do with the numpy.char module to the numpy list. NP, done. I'm a little concerned about some of the assumptions that are being  made about the number

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Deprecate chararray [was [SciPy-dev] Plea for help]

2009-08-20 Thread Christopher Hanley
Here is what I know about the chararray usage at STScI since first looking into it this morning. It is used in PyFITS and within the COS instrument calibration code. I have not heard back from the other projects yet given most of our developers are away at this time. It appears that the