[Numpy-discussion] Record arrays

[Perry Greenfield]

Hi Chris,

Didn't we remove all dependence on recarray? I could have sworn we  
did that.

Perry

On Jun 26, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Christopher Hanley wrote:

> Travis E. Oliphant wrote:
>> Stéfan van der Walt wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am documenting `recarray`, and have a question:
>>>
>>> Is its use still recommended, or has it been superseded by fancy  
>>> data-types?
>>>
>> I rarely recommend it's use (but some people do like attribute  
>> access to
>> the fields).    It is wrong, however, to say that recarray has been
>> superseded by fancy data types because fancy data types have  
>> existed for
>> as long as recarrays.
>>
>> I believe pyfits uses them quite a bit, and so they deserve to be
>> documented.
>>
>> -Travis
>>
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> Travis is correct.  PyFITS uses recarrays quite extensively.  It  
> was the
> large, legacy numarray project I was referring too. ;-)
>
> I had forgotten about the attribute access.  I know a number of people
> who use that feature in conjunction with matplotlib for plotting  
> data in
> tables, especially during interactive use.
>
> Chris
>
>
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