I'm working on some two-dimensional tables of data, where some data are numerical, while other aren't. I'd like to use numarray's numerical capabilities with the numerical parts (columns) while keeping the data in each row together. (I'm sure this generalizes to more dimensions, and to sub-arrays in general, not just rows.) It's not a hard problem, really, but the obvious solution--to keep the other rows in separate arrays/lists and just juggle things around--seems a bit clunky. I was just wondering if anyone had other ideas (would it be practical to include all the data in a single array somehow--I seem to recall that Numeric could have arbitrary object arrays, but I'm not sure whether numarray supports this?) or perhaps some hints on how to organize code around this? I wrote a small class that wraps things up and works a bit lik R/S-plus's data frames; is there some other more standard code out there for this sort of thing? (It's a problem that crops up often in data processing of various kinds...) Thanks, Magnus -- Magnus Lie Hetland http://hetland.org