On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 02:19, Pierre GM <pgmdevl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 8, 2010, at 4:37 AM, Sebastian Haase wrote: >> another note: >> http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/arrays.indexing.html#arrays-indexing-rec >> should not say "record array" - because recarray a "special" in that >> they can even access the named fields via attribute access rather >> than using the dictionary-like syntax. > > Well, traditionally, any item of a structured array is called a record, so a > ndarray w/ flexible dtype can also be called a record array... recarrays are > just a particular case of structured (or record) arrays.
In general usage, that is true. However, we have more or less settled on consistently using "structured array" in the documentation in order to avoid confusion with recarrays. -- 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
