Rob Speer writes: >> Or what I was striving for: >> >> arr.year.named[1994:2010] >> arr.year['1994':'2010'] >> arr.year['1994':-3]
> So your proposal is, whenever there's an index that is not an integer, > look it up by name, and use .named only if you want integer tick > names? This feels too inconsistent to me. It adds a fair amount of > confusion to save a small amount of typing. If keystrokes are that > important, I'd rather replace "named" with something shorter than lose > the distinction entirely. No. I'd rather go for eliminating the 'arr.year.named', and providing only: * arr.__getitem__ * arr.named.__getitem__ * arr.<label>.__getitem__ The first being just the current ndarray.__getitem__, and the two last methods would accept both strings and integers, assuming that names/ticks based on integers (e.g., the 1994 above) must be provided as strings, or otherwise are treated as good old array indexes. 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
