> True. The problem is knowing when that is the case. The subroutine in > question is at the bottom of the heap and don't know nothin'. IIRC, it just > sits there and does the comparison by calling through a pointer with char* > arguments.
What does the comparison function actually look like for the case of dtype='|Sn'? Is there no way of sending the underlying types to the comparison, so it can throw an exception if the two data types are not supported? James _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
