Re: [Numpy-discussion] Remove sctypeNA and typeNA from numpy core

2018-06-21 Thread Eric Wieser
> I bet the NA is for the missing value support thatnever happened Nope - NA stands for NumArray Eric On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 at 11:07 Sebastian Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 09:25 -0700, Matti Picus wrote: > > numpy.core has many ways to catalogue dtype names: sctypeDict, > > typeDict > >

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Remove sctypeNA and typeNA from numpy core

2018-06-21 Thread Sebastian Berg
On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 09:25 -0700, Matti Picus wrote: > numpy.core has many ways to catalogue dtype names: sctypeDict, > typeDict > (which is precisely sctypeDict), typecodes, and typename. We also > generate sctypeNA and typeNA but, as issue 11241 shows, it is > sometimes > wrong. They are

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Remove sctypeNA and typeNA from numpy core

2018-06-21 Thread Matti Picus
On 21/06/18 09:25, Matti Picus wrote: numpy.core has many ways to catalogue dtype names: sctypeDict, typeDict (which is precisely sctypeDict), typecodes, and typename. We also generate sctypeNA and typeNA but, as issue 11241 shows, it is sometimes wrong. They are also not documented and never

[Numpy-discussion] Remove sctypeNA and typeNA from numpy core

2018-06-21 Thread Matti Picus
numpy.core has many ways to catalogue dtype names: sctypeDict, typeDict (which is precisely sctypeDict), typecodes, and typename. We also generate sctypeNA and typeNA but, as issue 11241 shows, it is sometimes wrong. They are also not documented and never used inside numpy. Instead of fixing