Travis E. Oliphant wrote: > 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 Is its use still recommended, or has it been superseded by fancy data-types? >> > I rarely recommend it's use (but some people do like attribute access to > the fields). It is wrong, however, to say that recarray has been > superseded by fancy data types because fancy data types have existed for > as long as recarrays. > > I believe pyfits uses them quite a bit, and so they deserve to be > documented. > > -Travis > > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > Numpy-discussion@scipy.org > http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
Travis is correct. PyFITS uses recarrays quite extensively. It was the large, legacy numarray project I was referring too. ;-) I had forgotten about the attribute access. I know a number of people who use that feature in conjunction with matplotlib for plotting data in tables, especially during interactive use. 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
