Re: [Numpy-discussion] dtype confusion
Thanks Stefan and Travis for their explanations. First a request: Could both explanations be added to the manual, please? Thanks. So the problem I was having was that I thought this difference in behavior would be caused by two different types: recarray and ndarray. I feel that there is still some underlying behavior that I don't understand, but for now the puzzling thing was that I thought that the new dtype simply assigns names and aliases varname[:,0] to varname['x'], varname[:,1] to varname['y'], and so on. I didn't expect it to fundamentally change the array in that way, I would have expected varname.view(recarray) to do that. Would it make sense for me then to create something like a "namedarray" subclass of ndarray that doesn't change the dtype but simply let's you provide names and assign them to the columns? Maybe in my case it's easier, because all columns of the record array have the same type I guess I'll re-read the dtypes and recarray parts of the manual now... Thanks, Jan
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Jan Strube