On Jan 31, 2008 10:55 AM, James Philbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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? >
There is an upper level routine that parses the keywords and sets things up. There may even be two upper level routines, but I don't recall. The purpose of the two routines you touched was to pull out a small block of code that could be very simple because of its assumptions. Chuck
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