[Numpy-discussion] Datarray BoF, part2

[Keith Goodman]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:56 AM, John Salvatier
<jsalvati at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> I don't really know much about this topic, but what about a flag at array
> creation time (or whenever you define labels) that says whether valid
> indexes will be treated as labels or indexes for that array?

It's an interesting idea. My guess is that you'd end up having to
check the attribute all the time when writing code:

if dar.intaslabel:
    dar2 = dar[tickmap(i)]
else:
    dar2 = dar[i]