June 27, 2008
2:46 a.m.
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 09:36:38PM -0500, Robert Kern wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 21:24, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org> wrote:
I understand all your comments and thank you for making this distinction explicit. I can see why recarray can slow code down, but I find attribute lookup make code much more readable, and interactive work fantastic (tab completion).
I'm confused. recarray fields do not show up in any standard tab-completion schemes.
Damn you are right. So I what just making noise I guess. But my point about code readability remains, and it is shorter to type.
Actually, I wrote that particular snippet in the IPython codebase, but the idea comes from a Cookbook entry:
:) Gaël