[Numpy-discussion] Another dumb structured array question

[Robert Kern]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 15:32, David Warde-Farley <dwf at cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
> Is there an easy way to get multiple subdtypes out? e.g. if I have a
> dtype
>
> dtype([('foo', 'i4'), ('bar', 'i8'), ('baz', 'S100')])
>
> and an array with that dtype, is there a way to only get the 'foo' and
> 'bar'?
>
> arr[('foo','bar')] doesn't seem to work.

A little bit of logic wrapped around
numpy.lib.recfunctions.drop_fields() should do the trick.

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Robert Kern

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