Hi Travis 2009/2/6 Travis Oliphant <[email protected]>: > Thus newarr = arr[['name', 'age']].copy() would be exactly the same > size as arr because elements are copied wholesale and each "row" is a > single element in the NumPy array. Some infrastructure would have to > be implemented at a fundamental level to handle partial-element > manipulation similar at least in spirit to what is needed to handle > bit-level striding on a fundamental level.
I like your suggestion! Can you think of a way to implement #2 with the correct copy semantics? Being able to create a view without copying is such a big plus that it is worth considering, even at an implementation cost. Regards Stéfan _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
