Keith Goodman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Christopher Barker > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So what would you get if you wanted: >> >> MyDataArray['jones':'wilson'] >> >> or >> >> MyDataArray.names[slice('jones','wilson')] >> >> or whatever the syntax would be? >> >> If it was in alphabetical order, you'd be all set, but what it if >> wasn't? It would be pretty cool if you could get an alphabetical slice. > > If it sorted the data automatically then you couldn't turn off the > sorting.
sure -- but what would it mean to ask for a slice by name without sorting? If you want it in the order it happens to be in, you'd use numerical slicing (at least that's the use case I can imagine). > Without automatic sorting the user gets to decide whether or > not to sort before indexing. A sort ticks along axis function would be > useful, sort of like > http://larry.sourceforge.net/reference.html#la.larry.sortaxis. Yup -- that's nice, and would take care of most issues. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [email protected] _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
