On Sep 18, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Alex van der Spek wrote:
> Why does this not work?
>
>>>> dat=[[1,2,3],[4,5,6]]
>>>> col=[('a','f4'),('b','f4'),('c','f4')]
>>>> arr=numpy.array(dat,dtype=col)
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<pyshell#91>", line 1, in <module>
> arr=numpy.array(dat,dtype=col)
> TypeError: expected a readable buffer object
>
> But this does:
>
>>>> dat=[(1,2,3),(4,5,6)]
>>>> arr=numpy.array(dat,dtype=col)
>>>> arr
> array([(1.0, 2.0, 3.0), (4.0, 5.0, 6.0)], dtype=[('a', '<f4'), ('b',
> '<f4'), ('c', '<f4')])
>
> The only difference that the object is a list of tuples now?
I don't know why you're seeing what you're seeing, but if you don't get answer
here you could try asking on the numpy list.
Good luck
Philip
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