On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 16:43, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 04:39:23PM -0500, Robert Kern wrote: >> > where should i write the docs? in the file itself or through the doc >> > editor? also re path, since it can be a file-like, that would have to >> > be something like: > >> > if isinstance(filename, basestring): >> > filename = os.path.abspath(filename) >> > self.filename = filename > >> > ok with that? > >> In the case of file object, we should grab the filename from it. >> Whether the filename argument to the constructor was a file name or a >> file object, self.filename should always be the file name, IMO. > > +1. > > Once this is in, would it make it possible/desirable to have memmapped > arrays pickle (I know that it would require work, I am just asking).
You need some more information from the constructor arguments, but yes. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
