Hi Chris, Didn't we remove all dependence on recarray? I could have sworn we did that.
Perry On Jun 26, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Christopher Hanley wrote: > 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 Is its use still recommended, or has it been superseded by fancy 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 superseded by fancy data types because fancy data types have 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 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion