It's also an interesting
question whether they've fixed the unicode/binary issues, 

Which brings up the "how do we handle text/strings in numpy? issue. We had a good thread going here about what the 'S' data type should be , what with py3 and all, but I don't think we ever really resolved that.

IIRC, the key issue was whether we should have a "proper" one-byte-per-character text type -- after all, ASCI/ANSI text is pretty common in scientific data sets, and 4 bytes per char is a fair bit of overhead.

Anyway, this all ties in with the text file parsing issues...


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