Hi folks,
During my numpy talk, someone (James?) asked about alignment issues in
custom datatype creation. As I suspected, the numpy developers were well
aware of the issue. the numpy.dtype() constructor takes an optional
flag: "align":
dtype(obj, align=False, copy=False)
...
align : bool, optional
Add padding to the fields to match what a C compiler would output
for a similar C-struct. Can be ``True`` only if `obj` is
a dictionary or a comma-separated string.
Just noticed this, so I figured I'd let y'all know.
-Chris
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