[Numpy-discussion] what is data attribute of numpy.str_ ?

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

python 3.3

I have a bug because we have a check for a .data attribute, that is
not supposed to be available for a string.


(Pdb) dir(data)
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'swapcase', 'take', 'title', 'tofile', 'tolist', 'tostring', 'trace',
'translate', 'transpose', 'upper', 'var', 'view', 'zfill']
(Pdb) data
'0'
(Pdb) type(data)
<class 'numpy.str_'>
(Pdb) data.data
*** TypeError: memoryview: numpy.str_ object does not have the buffer interface
(Pdb)

Josef