On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:39, Neal Becker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. Where would I find this new datetime dtype? It's in the SVN trunk. > 2. Don't know exactly what 'parameterized' dtypes are. Does this mean that > the dtype for 8.1 format fixed-pt is different from the dtype for 6.2 > format, for example? Yes. The dtype code letter is the same, but the dtype object has metadata attached to it in the form of a dictionary. The ufunc loops get references to the array objects and will look at the dtype metadata in order to figure out exactly what to do. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
