Hello,
I am trying to convert a larger project of ours from Numeric to numarray under some time pressure. One stumbling point is that numarray does not support the Numeric "PyObject" typecode for arrays. I am mapping some kind or database structure to Numeric arrays and am using PyObject arrays for storing String columns for consistency with the numeric columns. How would this be solved with numarray? Example:
python Python 2.2.1 (#1, Dec 13 2002, 10:37:32) [GCC 3.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import Numeric as N a=N.zeros(3, N.PyObject) a[:] = ['abc', 'def', 'ghi'] a array([abc , def , ghi ],'O')
Thanks Berthold --
At the moment, numarray doesn't support PyObject arrays (though I believe that adding such capability is simple enough I am tempted to try to do so today!). Another possibility is to use chararray *if* you are dealing with fixed length strings. We use that as a way of providing character fields to our record array class (recarray). If this is so, you may find that more useful. Let us know and we will point you to where you can find more information (recarray and chararray aren't that well documented right now). Perry