Les Schaffer wrote: > 4. last year i made a case for the old records to return a list of the > column names. it looks like the column names are now attributes of the > record object, any chance of getting a list of them > recarrayObj.get_colNames() or some such? yes, in working code, we know > what the names are, but in test code we are creating recarrays from > parsing of Excel spreadsheets, and for testing purposes, its nice to > know what records THINKS are the names of all the columns.
In [2]: from numpy import * In [3]: rec.fromarrays(ones(10, dtype=float) Display all 628 possibilities? (y or n) In [3]: a = rec.fromarrays([ones(10, dtype=float), ones(10, dtype=int)], names='float,int', formats=[float, int]) In [4]: a Out[4]: recarray([(1.0, 1), (1.0, 1), (1.0, 1), (1.0, 1), (1.0, 1), (1.0, 1), (1.0, 1), (1.0, 1), (1.0, 1), (1.0, 1)], dtype=[('float', '>f8'), ('int', '>i4')]) In [6]: a.dtype.names Out[6]: ('float', 'int') -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion