[Numpy-discussion] Recarray attributes writeable

[Fernando Perez]

On 6/17/06, Francesc Altet <faltet at carabos.com> wrote:

> However, I think that this has its utility, specially when accessing to
> nested fields (see later). In addition, I'd suggest introducing a
> special accessor called, say, 'fields' in order to access the fields
> themselves and not the attributes. For example, if you want to access
> the 'strides' attribute, you can do it in the usual way:
>
> >>> import numpy
> >>> tr=numpy.recarray(10, formats='i4,f8,f8', names='id,ra,strides')
> >>> tr.strides
> (20,)
>
> but, if you want to access *field* 'strides' you could do it by issuing:
>
> >>> tr.fields.strides
> <repr of field accessor object (shape, type...)>
> >>> tr.fields.strides[:]
> array([ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.])

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+1

I meant to write exactly the same thing, but was too lazy to do it :)

Cheers,

f