On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
> I feel like for most purposes, what we *really* want is a variable length > string dtype (I.e., where each element can be a different length.). I've been toying with the idea of creating an array type for interned strings. In many applications dealing with large arrays of variable size strings, the strings come from a relatively short set of names. Arrays of interned strings can be manipulated very efficiently because in may respects they are just like arrays of integers.
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