On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Stefan van der Walt <stef...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017, at 10:13, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: > > recarrays are another half-hearted feature in numpy that is mostly > obsolete with pandas and pandas_like DataFrames in other > packages. > > > I'm fully on board with factoring out np.matrix into a subpackage. But I > would not touch structured arrays; they are quite useful, and sometimes > perform surprisingly well compared to the other solutions around.
I think Josef specifically meant `recarrays`, which give access to elements of a structured array via attribute access. I'd tend to agree with him that those turned out not to be such a great idea. But (I think) nobody is arguing we should get rid of arrays with structured dtypes - I use them regularly myself too. -- Marten _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion