July 17, 2008
2:29 p.m.
Hi Pierre, 2008/7/17 Pierre GM <pgmdevlist@gmail.com>:
Otherwise, you can already save the array and mask separately.
An other possibility is to store the MaskedArray as a record array, with one field for the data and one field for the mask.
What about the other parameters, such as fill value? Do we know its type beforehand? If we can come up with a robust way to convert a MaskedArray into (one or more) structured array(s), that would be perfect for storage purposes. Also, you wouldn't need to be volunteered to implement it :) Further, could we rename numpy.ma.core to numpy.ma._core? I think we should make it clear that users should not import from core directly. Cheers Stéfan