On May 11, 2009, at 6:36 PM, Skipper Seabold wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Wei Su <taste_o...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, Pierre: >> >> Thanks for the reply. I can now actually turn a big list into a >> record >> array. My question is actually how to join related record arrays in >> Python.. >> This is done in SAS by MERGE and PROC SQL and by merge() in R. But >> I have no >> idea how to do it in Python. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Wei Su >> > > Does merge_arrays in numpy.lib.recfunctions do what you want?
Probably not. merge_arrays is close to concatenate, and will raise an exception if 2 fields have the same name (in the flattened version). Testing R's merge(), join_by looks like the corresponding function. _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion