Matthew Brett wrote:
> I think the summary here is 'numpy strings are zero padded; therefore
> you may run into surprises with a string that has trailing zeros'.
>
> I see why that is - the zero terminator is the only way for numpy
> arrays to see where the end of the string is...
almost -- it's not quite zero-terminated, you can have embedded zeros:
In [35]: np.array('aa\x00bb', dtype='S6')
Out[35]:
array('aa\x00bb',
dtype='|S6')
-Chris
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