Hi, This is following the discussion on bug http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/2017
Essentially, there is a discrepency between the actual type of the flags member in the dtype C structure (char) and how it is declared in the descriptor table (T_INT). The problem is that we are damned if we fix it, damned if we are not: - fixing T_INT to T_BYTE. flag in python is now fixed, but it breaks pickled numpy arrays - not fixing it means that the value is broken at the python level. Changing the flag to be an actual int would break the ABI. I currently have this: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/228 Which one is the more appropriate ? Maybe a deprecation warning for 1.7 and change it in 1.8 ? Note that we can fix the hash issue with either solution, David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
