Greg Ewing wrote: > Travis E. Oliphant wrote: >> PEP: <unassigned> >> Title: Adding data-type objects to the standard library > > Not sure about having 3 different ways to specify > the structure -- it smacks of Too Many Ways To Do > It to me.
You might be right, but they all have use-cases. I've actually removed most of the multiple ways that NumPy allows for creating data-types. > > Also, what if I want to refer to fields by name > but don't want to have to work out all the offsets I don't know what you mean. You just use the list-style to define a data-format with fields. The offsets are worked out for you. The only use for offsets was the dictionary form. The dictionary form stems from a desire to use the fields dictionary of a data-type as a data-type specification (which it is essentially is). -Travis _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
