On 2010-02-02 20:31 , Robert Kern wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 20:23, Neil Martinsen-Burrell <n...@wartburg.edu> > wrote: > >> I don't understand Travis's comment that "datetime is just a >> place-holder for data". > > That's not a direct quote and is a misinterpretation of what he said. > In the course of adding the datetime support, we implemented it by > adding a general feature to dtype objects such that they can hold > arbitrary metadata. This is useful feature for more than just datetime > support and should be complete and useful at this time.
My apologies for the misquote. As I said I did not understand his comment. Thanks for the clarification. -Neil _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
