On Thu, Nov 30, 2017, at 12:02, Marten van Kerkwijk wrote: > 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.
Ah, okay, that makes sense! Which reminds me: while these are quite useful, they're not always particularly pleasant to use. A good first improvement would be to allow columnar printing, and a few utility functions to give you some of the basic functionality of pandas (calculating descriptive statistics like mean, dropping NaN rows, some equivalent of groupby). All these are only a few lines of Python, but can be annoying to figure out. If this sounds appealing, I'd be willing to put together a small NEP. Stéfan _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
