[Numpy-discussion] Array of PyObject or strings

Nicolas Pernetty nicopernetty at yahoo.fr
Sat Jun 25 14:57:30 EDT 2005


On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:12:07 -0700, Robert Kern <rkern at ucsd.edu> wrote :

> > 
> > I'm currently in the process of switching from Numeric to numarray
> > but have a problem with array of strings.
> > 
> > It seems that numarray (with its strings module) only accept array
> > of fixed-length strings but the problem is that I got an array that
> > I'm filling on demand, and I don't know beforehand how big the
> > strings will be.
> > 
> > With Numeric, I use array of PyObject (performance is not an issue
> > here) and it seems to have disappear with numarray.
> > Can anyone confirm this ?
> 
> It's in numarray.objects .
> 

Right ! haven't seen it in the doc, sorry.
Anyway it's what I was looking for.

Regards




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