[Numpy-discussion] [JOB] Astropy Research Software engineer

2023-08-04 Thread Aldcroft, Thomas via NumPy-Discussion
Astropy is hiring a Research Software engineer. We are looking for people who can spend 50-100% of their time on Astropy development in the next 6-9 months. Qualified candidates can range from software developers with open source experience to astronomy students with software experience. *If you

Re: [Numpy-discussion] manylinux upgrade for numpy wheels

2020-02-06 Thread Aldcroft, Thomas
Our organization is still using CentOS-6, so my vote is for that. Thanks, Tom On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 5:38 PM Nathaniel Smith wrote: > Pretty sure the 2010 and 2014 images both have much newer compilers than > that. > > There are still a lot of users on CentOS 6, so I'd still stick to 2010 for >

Re: [Numpy-discussion] new MaskedArray class

2019-06-23 Thread Aldcroft, Thomas
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 11:51 AM Marten van Kerkwijk < m.h.vankerkw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Allan, > > I'm not sure I would go too much by what the old MaskedArray class did. It > indeed made an effort not to overwrite masked values with a new result, > even to the extend of copying back masked

Re: [Numpy-discussion] proposal: smaller representation of string arrays

2017-04-25 Thread Aldcroft, Thomas
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal < chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > > On Apr 25, 2017, at 12:38 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > > > Eh... First, on Windows and MacOS, filenames are natively Unicode. > > Yeah, though once they are stored I. A text file -- who the heck > kno

Re: [Numpy-discussion] proposal: smaller representation of string arrays

2017-04-24 Thread Aldcroft, Thomas
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Robert Kern wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Aldcroft, Thomas < > aldcr...@head.cfa.harvard.edu> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Robert Kern > wrote: > >> > >> I am not unfamiliar with this

Re: [Numpy-discussion] proposal: smaller representation of string arrays

2017-04-24 Thread Aldcroft, Thomas
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Robert Kern wrote: > I am not unfamiliar with this problem. I still work with files that have > fields that are supposed to be in EBCDIC but actually contain text in > ASCII, UTF-8 (if I'm lucky) or any of a variety of East European 8-bit > encodings. In that expe

Re: [Numpy-discussion] proposal: smaller representation of string arrays

2017-04-24 Thread Aldcroft, Thomas
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Robert Kern wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Aldcroft, Thomas < > aldcr...@head.cfa.harvard.edu> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Chris Barker > wrote: > > >> - round-tripping of binary data (at

Re: [Numpy-discussion] proposal: smaller representation of string arrays

2017-04-24 Thread Aldcroft, Thomas
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Chris Barker wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Stephan Hoyer wrote: > > >> In this case, we want something compatible with Python's string (i.e. >>> full Unicode supporting) and I think should be as transparent as possible. >>> Python's string has made th