Hi, I've been finding numpy/scipy/matplotlib a very useful tool for data analysis. However, a recent change has caused me some problems. Numpy used to allow the name and title of a column of a structured array or recarray to be the same (at least in the svn version as of early last winter). Now, it seems that this is not allowed; see below. Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 27 2010, 12:20:23) [GCC 4.2.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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import numpy as np np.__version__ '2.0.0.dev-799179d' data = np.ndarray((5,1),dtype=[(('T','T'),float)]) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: title already used as a name or title. data = np.ndarray((5,1),dtype=[(('T at 0.25-in in F','T'),float)])

Would it be possible to change the tests to allow the name and title to be the same for the same component? I can work around this new limitation for new data files, but I'm having trouble reading data files I created last winter. (But even for new stuff, it would be nice if it name=title was allowed. I like using both names and titles so that I can record interesting information like point location and units in the titles. Sometimes, though, there isn't anything else interesting to say about a column (e.g., 'point','date', 'time'), and I'd like to (1) have both a title and a name to be consistent with more interesting columns and (2) have the title be equal to the name.) Thanks for any help you can give me with this! Kathy Tacina