[Numpy-discussion] Nested recarrays with subarrays and loadtxt: a bug in loadtxt?

[Pierre GM]

On May 27, 2009, at 7:29 PM, Stéfan van der Walt wrote:

> Hi Fernando
>
> 2009/5/28 Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com>:
>> Well, since dtypes allow for nesting full arrays in this fashion,
>> where I can say that the 'block' field can have (2,3) shape, it seems
>> like it would be nice to be able to express this nesting into loading
>> of plain text files as well.
>
> I think that would be very useful.  Please verify whether
>
> http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/changeset/7022

I fixed it for genfromtxt as well (r7023).
Should we backport the changes ?