On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Travis E. Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 Is its use still recommended, or has it been superseded by fancy data-types?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 superseded by fancy data types because fancy data types have existed for 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 personally think they are the best thing since sliced bread, and everyone here who uses them becomes immediately addicted to them. I would like to see better support for them, especially making the attrs exposed to dir so tab completion would work. People in the financial/business world work with spreadsheet data a lot, and record arrays are the natural data structure to represent tabular, heterogeneous data. If you work with this data all day, you save a lot of ugly keystrokes doing r.date rather than r['date'], and the code is prettier in my opinion. JDH _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
