On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Ryan May wrote: > > I definitely wouldn't advocate magic by default, but I think it > would be nice to > be able to get the functionality if one wanted to.
OK. Put on the TODO list. > There is one problem I > noticed, however. I found common_type and lib.mintypecode, but both > raise errors > when trying to find a dtype to match both bool and float. I don't > know if > there's another function somewhere that would work for what I want. I'm not familiar with these functions, I'll check that. > > Apparently, I get my error as a result of my use of titles in the > dtype to store > an alternate name for the field. (If you're not familiar with > titles, they're > nice because you can get fields by either name, so for the following > example, > a['a'] and a['A'] both return array([1]).) The following version of > your case > gives me the ValueError: Ah OK. You found a bug. There's a frustrating feature of dtypes: dtype.names doesn't always match [_[0] for _ in dtype.descr]. > As a side question, do you have some local mods to your numpy SVN so > that some of > the functions in recfunctions are available in numpy's top level? Probably. I used the develop option of setuptools to install numpy on a virtual environment. > On mine, I > can't get to them except by importing them from > numpy.lib.recfunctions. I don't > see any mention of recfunctions in lib/__init__.py. Well, till some problems are ironed out, I'm not really in favor of advertising them too much... _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
