A Tuesday 15 July 2008, Pierre GM escrigué: > On Tuesday 15 July 2008 07:30:09 Francesc Alted wrote: > > Maybe is only that. But by using the term 'frequency' I tend to > > think that you are expecting to have one entry (observation) in > > your array for each time 'tick' since time start. OTOH, the term > > 'resolution' doesn't have this implication, and only states the > > precision of the timestamp. > > OK, now I get it. > > > I don't know whether my impression is true or not, but after > > reading about your TimeSeries package, I'm still thinking that this > > expectation of one observation per 'tick' was what driven you to > > choose the 'frequency' name. > > Well, we do require a "one point per tick" for some operations, such > as conversion from one frequency to another, but only for TimeSeries. > A Date Array doesn't have to be regularly spaced.
Ok, I see. So, it is just the 'frequency' keyword that was misleading me. Thanks for the clarification. Cheers, -- Francesc Alted _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
