[Numpy-discussion] One-byte string dtype: third time's the charm?

Sturla Molden sturla.molden at gmail.com
Sun Feb 22 15:50:19 EST 2015


On 22/02/15 20:57, Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> This is a discussion about how strings are represented as bit-patterns
> inside ndarrays; the internal storage representation used by 'str' is
> irrelevant.

I thought it would be clever to just use the same internal 
representation as Python would choose. But obviously it is not. UTF-8 
would fail because it is not regularly stored. And every string in an 
ndarray will need to have the same encoding, but Python might think 
otherwise.

Sturla





More information about the NumPy-Discussion mailing list