Greg Ewing wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> Greg Ewing wrote: > >>> Also, what if I want to refer to fields by name >>> but don't want to have to work out all the offsets > >> Use the list definition form. With the changes I've >> suggested above, you wouldn't even have to name the fields you don't >> care about - just describe them. > > That would be okay. > > I still don't see a strong justification for having a > one-big-string form as well as a list/tuple/dict form, > though.
Compaction of representation is all. It's used quite a bit in numarray, which is where most of the 'kind' names came from as well. When you don't want to name fields it is a really nice feature (but it doesn't nest well). -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
