On 30 Jun 2014 17:05, "Chris Barker" <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: >> >> It's also an interesting >> question whether they've fixed the unicode/binary issues, > > > Which brings up the "how do we handle text/strings in numpy? issue. We had a good thread going here about what the 'S' data type should be , what with py3 and all, but I don't think we ever really resolved that. > > IIRC, the key issue was whether we should have a "proper" one-byte-per-character text type -- after all, ASCI/ANSI text is pretty common in scientific data sets, and 4 bytes per char is a fair bit of overhead. > > Anyway, this all ties in with the text file parsing issues...
Only tangentially though :-) maybe start another thread if you want to talk about that?
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