Rob Speer writes: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Lluís <xscr...@gmx.net> wrote: >> Thus, we can use something in the middle: >> >> arr[0,1] >> arr.names['Netherlands',2010] # I'd rather go for 'names' instead of >> 'ticks'
> Ah ha. So this is the case with positional axes but named ticks, which > we haven't really brought up yet. I'm definitely thinking of making > the top-level datarray support "named" as well, which would make it > into: >>>> arr.named('Netherlands', 2010) > But the other change you've got here is to make "named" into a > __getitem__-able object instead of a method, so you use square > brackets with it and can use slice syntax. I could do it this way as > well. Right, seamless slicing is precisely why I have __getitem__. > But I don't understand your second example: >> arr.country['Spain'].year[1994:2010] > That seems to run straight into the index/name ambiguity. Shouldn't > that take the 1994th through 2010th indices along the "year" axis? Not > every axis will have names, so you can't make *all* the indexing go by > names. Sorry, I just c&p without placing the necessary '. > If named were a getitem-able object, that would be: >>>> arr.country.named['Spain'].year.named[1994:2010] Or what I was striving for: arr.year.named[1994:2010] arr.year['1994':'2010'] arr.year['1994':-3] I already have the code for managing all kinds of indexind methods in sciexp2, so I you want I could try to integrate it into datarray. Read you, Lluis -- "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion