[Numpy-discussion] Is this a bug?
Travis E. Oliphant
oliphant at enthought.com
Tue May 27 17:56:27 EDT 2008
Robert Kern wrote:
>
>
> Can we make it so that dtype('c') is preserved instead of displaying
> '|S1'? It does not behave the same as dtype('|S1') although it
> compares equal to it.
>
We could with some special-casing in the representation for string
data-types. Right now, dtype('c') is equivalent to dtype('S1') except
the type member of the underlying C-structure (char attribute in Python)
is 'c' instead of 'S'
-Travis
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