Stefan Krah added the comment: Here's a grammar that roughly describes the subset that NumPy supports.
As for implementing this in the struct module: There is a new data description language on the horizon: http://datashape.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ It does not have all the low-level capabilities (e.g changing alignment on the fly), but it is far more readable. Example: PEP-3118: "(2,3)10f0fZdT{10B:x:(2,3)d:y:Q:z:}B" Datashape: "2 * 3 * (10 * float32, 0 * float32, complex128, {x: 10 * uint8, y: 2 * 3 * float64, z: int64}, uint8)" There are a lot of open questions still. Should "10f" be viewed as an array[10] of float, i.e. equivalent to (10)f? In the context of PEP-3118, I think so. ---------- nosy: +skrah Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file42451/grammar.y _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3132> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
