[Numpy-discussion] structured arrays, recarrays, and record arrays

2015-01-18 Thread Allan Haldane
Hello all, Documentation of recarrays is poor and I'd like to improve it. In order to do this I've been looking at core/records.py, and I would appreciate some feedback on my plan. Let me start by describing what I see. In the docs there is some confusion about 'structured arrays' vs 'record

Re: [Numpy-discussion] structured arrays, recarrays, and record arrays

2015-01-18 Thread Allan Haldane
In light of my previous message I'd like to bring up https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/3581, as it is now clearer to me what is happening. In the example on that page the user creates a recarray and a record array (in my nomenclature) without realizing that they are slightly different