On 3/15/06, Perry Greenfield <perry@stsci.edu> wrote:
You are right that this is messy. We would like to change this sometime. But we'd like to complete the transition to numpy first before doing that so it may be some months before we can (and it may not look quite like what you suggest). But your point is very valid.
Thanks, Perry
OK, fair enough. Incidentally, I realized that this attribute _coldefs is not part of recarray anyway, but something added by pyfits. I see now that the names and the formats with a greater than sign concatenated on the front can be extracted from dtype: In [247]: t.dtype Out[247]: [('x', '>f4'), ('y', '>i4')] I could write my own function to extract what I need, but I thought I would ask: is there already a simpler way? And is there a function to compare this '>f4' stuff to the named types such as Float32 ('f')? Erin P.S. If it is man power that is preventing some of the simple things like this from being implemented, I could volunteer some time.