Hi Hameer, all, sorry for the super late follow-up. Not that there is any content, but I just put this up quickly:
https://hackmd.io/xSYBZI-cQ-etapoExfM1Cg a bit also because I am not sure if the zoom link will work, so I want to be able to update it. See you, Sebastian On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 18:34 +0000, Hameer Abbasi wrote: > Hi Sebastian; all: > > I plan to attend the dtype meeting. Monday 11 AM California time is > fine for me. > > Best regards, > Hameer Abbasi > > Get Outlook for iOS > > From: NumPy-Discussion < > numpy-discussion-bounces+einstein.edison=gmail....@python.org> on > behalf of Sebastian Berg <sebast...@sipsolutions.net> > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2019 11:23 pm > To: numpy-discussion@python.org > Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Adding generic dtypes > > Hey, > > On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 11:35 -0600, Charles R Harris wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > The possibility of disabling default creation of object arrays has > > come up again. I'm wondering if one way to get there is to allow > > generic dtypes. The `numpy/core/numerictypes.py` module defines a > > hierarchy, and if we could allow things like `dtype=integer` or > > `dtype=no_object` and such we would gain more control over the > > resulting array types. At some point we could make `no_object` the > > default if we so desired. > > > > Thoughts? > > personally, that is what I am currently thinking along. I was > calling > them AbstractDTypes. These would also (probably mainly) be used for > type promotion during ufunc calls (ufunc type resolution). > > OTOH, for `no_object` itself, I feel it would be OK with just > special > case it, since the I do believe the plan should be to deprecate it. > > I have to think a bit about how "flexible" dtypes come in (and value > based promotion, which is a bit of a funny beast). > > I would like to plan a zoom meeting beginning of next week to > discuss > this type of thing a bit more. Maybe Monday at 11 California time, > but > right now I am very flexible, so whoever would be interested, feel > free > to shoot me a mail to move things. > Not sure how concrete things will be, but without talking about it, > it > is difficult for me to settle design ideas a bit more. > > Best, > > Sebastian > > > > > > Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
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