John Parejko wrote:
>Howdy! I just wanted to voice my agreement with this statment by Erin Sheldon:
>
> > I brought up the issue a while back of having a simple way to
> > access the field names of an array. The quick summary: accessing
> > field names has some oddness that needs cleaning up.
>
>Sometimes a['name'], sometimes a.field('name'). I vastly prefer the first
>version; it has become my favored way of dealing with my FITS and ASCII
>data. But using the bracket notation sometimes gives an error, and I
>haven't quite figured out what the circumstances are.
>
>Also, "for name in a.dtype.fields:" or "for name in a.fields:" would be
>very, very handy.
>
>Could this sort of thing get put in before the beta (or is it already in,
>and I missed the boat, again?).
>
>
>
It's actually there already. The issue at hand is that the fields
dictionary contains an additional member keyed by a -1. This odd-ball
entry in the dictionary is to obtain an "ordered" list of the fields.
The order is determined by the offset.
This is a warty situation but the functionality is there.
Probably a better solution is to add a names attribute to the dtype
object that returns the ordered list. In C, the PyArray_Descr structure
would grow an additional names member that contains the ordered list of
names instead of sticking it as a -1 key entry in the fields dictionary
which was and is a hack.
Let's schedule this for pre 1.0 beta
-Travis
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