You can treat a record in a record array like a tuple or a dictionary when
it comes to formatting. So, either refer to the index element you want
formatted as a float, or refer to it by name (in the formatting language).
By just doing {:f}, you are just grabbing the first one, which is "XXYYZZ"
and trying to format that. But remember, you can only do this to a single
record at a time, not the entire record array at once.
Regular numpy arrays can not be formatted in this manner, hence your other
attempt failures.
Cheers!
Ben Root
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Maccarthy, Jonathan K <jkm...@lanl.gov>wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've looked in the mailing list archives and with the googles, but haven't
> yet found any hints with this question...
>
> I have a float field in a NumPy record that looks like it's being
> substituted as a string in the Python "{:f}".format() mini-language, thus
> throwing an error:
>
>
> In [1]: tmp = np.rec.array([('XYZZ', 2001123, -23.82396)],
> dtype=np.dtype([('sta', '|S6'), ('ondate', '<i8'), ('lat', '<f4')]))[0]
>
> In [2]: type(tmp)
> Out[3]: numpy.core.records.record
>
> In [3]: tmp
> Out[3]: ('XYZZ', 2001123, -23.823917388916016)
>
> In [4]: tmp.sta, tmp.ondate, tmp.lat
> Out[4]: ('XYZZ', 2001123, -23.823917)
>
> # strings and integers work
> In [5]: '{0.sta:6.6s} {0.ondate:8d}'.format(tmp)
> Out[5]: 'XYZZ 2001123'
>
> # "lat" is a float, but it seems to be coerced to a string first, and
> failing
> In [6]: '{0.sta:6.6s} {0.ondate:8d} {0.lat:11.6f}'.format(tmp)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)
> /Users/jkmacc/<ipython-input-312-bff8066cfde8> in <module>()
> ----> 1 '{0.sta:6.6s} {0.ondate:8d} {0.lat:>11.6f}'.format(tmp)
>
> ValueError: Unknown format code 'f' for object of type 'str'
>
> # string formatting for doesn't fail
> In [7]: '{0.sta:6.6s} {0.ondate:8d} {0.lat:>11.6s}'.format(tmp)
> Out[7]: 'XYZZ 2001123 -23.82'
>
>
> This also fails:
>
> In [7]: "{:f}".format(np.array(3.2, dtype='f4'))
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)
> /Users/jkmacc/<ipython-input-314-33119128e3e6> in <module>()
> ----> 1 "{:f}".format(np.array(3.2, dtype='f4'))
>
> ValueError: Unknown format code 'f' for object of type 'str'
>
>
>
> Does anyone understand what's happening?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Best,
> Jon
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