Stéfan van der Walt wrote: > Hi all, > > I am documenting `recarray`, and have a question: > > Is its use still recommended, or has it been superseded by fancy data-types? > > Regards > Stéfan > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > Numpy-discussion@scipy.org > http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
I would say that it has been superseded by fancy data-types. It is necessary that recarray remain for backward compatibility with large, legacy numarray projects. However, I would encourage all new code be written with the native object arrays. Chris -- Christopher Hanley Systems Software Engineer Space Telescope Science Institute 3700 San Martin Drive Baltimore MD, 21218 (410) 338-4338 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
