On 9/14/06, Victoria G. Laidler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just to balance the voting, I think things are fine as they are. As Travis says, the '<' is already used in the Python structure module and the rest doesn't take much time getting used to. However, the docstring for the dtype class is a bit lacking. It shouldn't be too much work to fix that up.
Chuck
Francesc Altet wrote:
>El dj 14 de 09 del 2006 a les 02:11 -0700, en/na Andrew Straw va
>escriure:
>
>
>>>>My main focus is on the fact that you might read '<i4' as
>>>>"less" than 4-bytes int, which is very confusing !
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>I can agree it's confusing at first, but it's the same syntax the struct
>>>module uses which is the Python precedent for this.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>I'm happy with seeing the repr() value since I know what it means, but I
>>can see Sebastian's point. Perhaps there's a middle ground -- the str()
>>representation for simple dtypes could contain both the repr() value and
>>an English description. For example, something along the lines of
>>"dtype('<i4') (4 byte integer, little endian)". For more complex dtypes,
>>the repr() string could be given without any kind of English translation.
>>
>>
>
>+1
>
>I was very used (and happy) to the numarray string representation for
>types ('Int32', 'Complex64'...) and looking at how NumPy represents it
>now, I'd say that this is a backwards step in readability. Something
>like '<i4' would look good for a low-level library, but not for a
>high-level one like NumPy, IMO.
>
>
I agree entirely.
The first type I got '<i4' instead of 'Int32', my reaction was "What the
hell is that?"
It looked disturbingly like line-noise corrupted text to me! (Blast from
the past...)
+1 from me as well.
Just to balance the voting, I think things are fine as they are. As Travis says, the '<' is already used in the Python structure module and the rest doesn't take much time getting used to. However, the docstring for the dtype class is a bit lacking. It shouldn't be too much work to fix that up.
Chuck
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