If array fields should be of the form (name,subdtype, shape), how do I specify field offsets? My datatype is word-aligned. Thanks. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 14:07, Igor Sylvester <igorsyl@gmail.com> wrote:
Everyone,
Shouldn't the itemsize below be 2?
import numpy as np dtype = np.dtype( [ (((2,), 'top'), [('nested', 'i1')]) ] ) dtype.itemsize 1 np.__version__ '1.0.4'
The elements of the dtype are of type array of size 2. Each element is a (nested) record array of size 2 with one field of type 'i1'. In contiguous memory, this should look identical to an 'i1' array of size 2.
That's not a valid dtype. Array fields should be of the form (name, subdtype, shape), not ((shape, name), subdtype). I'm not sure why dtype() does not simply reject this input.
In [22]: np.dtype([('top', [('nested', 'i1')], (2,))]).itemsize Out[22]: 2
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