[Numpy-discussion] ERROR: Module "features" does not exist

2024-05-16 Thread Thomas Mansencal
ee above for details. 14:27:24 ERRORBuildError: The custom build system failed. ``` So the build fails whilst trying to import the "features" module here: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/main/meson_cpu/x86/meson.build#L2C1-L3C1 Where is that module meant to be located? Cheers, T

[Numpy-discussion] Re: Please consider dropping Python 3.9 support for Numpy 2.0

2024-05-08 Thread Thomas Caswell
3.13+ and not hurt anyone > unless there's a major development. > > > > Little rant finished. :) > > ___ > > NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to numpy

[Numpy-discussion] Re: incomplete BLAS/CBLAS linking (Telling meson build which CBLAS/LAPACK (LAPACKE?) to use via pkgconfig module)

2024-01-01 Thread Dr. Thomas Orgis
o be specific and fail early if the configured choice is not available in the build environment. Pkgsrc is especially trying hard to avoid locating libraries from the host system (possibly a full GNU/Linux distro) if not explicitly told to. Also, my H

[Numpy-discussion] incomplete BLAS/CBLAS linking (Telling meson build which CBLAS/LAPACK (LAPACKE?) to use via pkgconfig module)

2023-12-25 Thread Dr. Thomas Orgis
could link the vendored superly with -lblas without changing the meson machinery? Alrighty then, Thomas -- Dr. Thomas Orgis HPC @ Universität Hamburg ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-di

[Numpy-discussion] Re: Telling meson build which CBLAS/LAPACK (LAPACKE?) to use via pkgconfig module

2023-12-05 Thread Dr. Thomas Orgis
Am Sun, 3 Dec 2023 19:54:10 +0100 schrieb "Dr. Thomas Orgis" : > > You have to go through a "build frontend" to produce a wheel, which then > > gets installed/repackaged for your distro. > > This is obviously happening in pkgsrc. > > I'll

[Numpy-discussion] Re: Telling meson build which CBLAS/LAPACK (LAPACKE?) to use via pkgconfig module

2023-12-03 Thread Dr. Thomas Orgis
x27;]) So there's this elaborate machinery that special-cases BLAS as a library that could (not) offer certain sets of API? Well, as long as the dynamic libcblas is used, the base BLAS API should be transparently avaible and those meson tests will work … ? I'll do some testing tomorro

[Numpy-discussion] Re: Telling meson build which CBLAS/LAPACK (LAPACKE?) to use via pkgconfig module

2023-11-27 Thread Dr. Thomas Orgis
se-ilp64` flag. It will not work to > craft a blas.pc which points at a 64-bit BLAS. So -Dblas=openblas64 -Dlapack=openblas64 -Duse-ilp64 would do it, right? Alrighty then, Thomas PS: You might want to fix that one: ../../numpy/meson.build:124: WARNING: Project targets '>=1.2.9

[Numpy-discussion] Telling meson build which CBLAS/LAPACK (LAPACKE?) to use via pkgconfig module

2023-11-27 Thread Dr. Thomas Orgis
ild if a 64 variant is chosen by the user. I wonder a bit if there are possible pitfalls combining other libraries with Python and indirectly some incompatible BLAS variant via NumPy … but one point of our user choice is that they could ensure that all packages really use the same BLAS. Alrighty t

[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

[Numpy-discussion] Re: Precision changes to sin/cos in the next release?

2023-05-31 Thread Thomas Caswell
you have any concrete example that might be worth taking > a look at in more detail? Either for performance or accuracy. > > -- > Robert Kern > ___ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org > To unsubscribe send an e

[Numpy-discussion] Re: Precision changes to sin/cos in the next release?

2023-05-31 Thread Thomas Caswell
t; > Cheers, > > Matthew > ___ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/nump

[Numpy-discussion] Re: NEP 29 and the faster Python release cadence

2022-05-26 Thread Thomas Caswell
t (which still >> exists), > > > What discrepancy? > > Cheers, > Ralf > > ___ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org > http

[Numpy-discussion] Re: NEP 29 and the faster Python release cadence

2022-05-25 Thread Thomas Caswell
o merge PRs. And having to > wait longer for new Python features is also annoying. > > Aaron Meurer > ___ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org

[Numpy-discussion] Re: NEP 29 and the faster Python release cadence

2022-05-25 Thread Thomas Caswell
woutH) >> ___ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussio

Re: [Numpy-discussion] reducing effort spent on wheel builds?

2021-08-09 Thread Thomas Caswell
Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax > > Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception > > > > chris.bar...@noaa.gov <mailto:chris.bar...@noaa.gov> > > > Just an empty response since this ended up in my spam filter, and I am > probably not the on

Re: [Numpy-discussion] interval wrapping / remainder / angle normalization

2021-05-20 Thread Thomas Hilger
When I understand correctly and what you desire is equivalent to integer overflowing, the function can indeed be applied as well. I tested. But to be sure, maybe some examples are better. Am Do., 20. Mai 2021 um 03:22 Uhr schrieb ZinGer_KyoN : > I have similar needs, but for int array and integer

[Numpy-discussion] interval wrapping / remainder / angle normalization

2021-05-19 Thread Thomas Hilger
this is of interest, I can contribute. Best regards, Thomas. ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NumPy Feature Request: Function to wrap angles to range [ 0, 2*pi] or [ -pi, pi ]

2020-11-24 Thread Thomas
> wrote: > >> On 24/11/2020 10:25, Thomas wrote: >> > Like Nathaniel said, it would not improve much when compared to the >> > modulo operator. >> > >> > It could handle the edge cases better, but really the biggest benefit >> > would

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NumPy Feature Request: Function to wrap angles to range [ 0, 2*pi] or [ -pi, pi ]

2020-11-24 Thread Thomas
ng something so > trivial as a function to numpy: I cannot think to any commonly used > algorithm that requires wrapping the phase, and it is going to be an > infinite source of bikesheeding whether the wrapped range should be > [-pi, pi) or (-pi, pi] or (0, 2*pi] or [0, 2*pi) >

[Numpy-discussion] NumPy Feature Request: Function to wrap angles to range [ 0, 2*pi] or [ -pi, pi ]

2020-11-23 Thread Thomas
Hi, I have a proposal for a feature and I hope this is the right place to post this. The idea is to have a function to map any input angle to the range of [ 0, 2*pi ] or [ - pi, pi ]. There already is a function called 'unwrap' that does the opposite, so I'd suggest calling this function 'wrap'.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] manylinux wheels with Github Actions

2020-11-20 Thread Thomas Caswell
Matplotlib has also migrated to building wheels via github actions and it has been working well. Tom On Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 17:48 Andrew Nelson wrote: > For my project (refnx) I solely use GH Actions to test and make wheels. In > my workflow ( > https://github.com/refnx/refnx/blob/master/.github

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NumPy 1.20.x branch in two weeks

2020-11-03 Thread Thomas Caswell
not sure it's clearer, the current NEP has a nice graphic and >> > > literally says "a project with a major or minor version release in >> > > November 2020 should support Python 3.7 and newer."). However happy >> > > to adopt it if it makes others happy - in the end it comes down to >> > > the same thing: it's recommended to drop Python 3.6 now. >> > > >> > > > My personal opinion is that somewhere in the range of 24-36 >> > > > months would be appropriate. >> > > >> > > +1 >> > > >> > > Cheers, >> > > Ralf >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > ___ >> > > NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> > > NumPy-Discussion@python.org >> > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> > > >> > >> > ___ >> > NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> > NumPy-Discussion@python.org >> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> >> ___ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> NumPy-Discussion@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> > ___ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > -- Thomas Caswell tcasw...@gmail.com ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Should we transfer MacPython/numpy-wheels to the NumPy org?

2020-10-29 Thread Thomas Caswell
goal? So far it is convenient that all the repos that upload > to https://anaconda.org/multibuild-wheels-staging are under one org to > coordinate upload token use. > > ___ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.or

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NEP 42 and physical unit DType

2020-10-09 Thread Thomas Caswell
; > ___ > > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > ___ > NumPy-Discussion mailing l

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to add clause to license prohibiting use by oil and gas extraction companies

2020-07-01 Thread Thomas Caswell
are is >> > used". >> > >> > Many thanks to all of the contributors who have put so much time and >> > energy into NumPy. ✨ ❤️ 😃 >> > >> > [1] https://github.com/gazprom-neft/petroflow >> > [2] https://github.com/climate-strike/analysis >> > [3] https://github.com/climate-strike/license >> > ___ >> > NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> > NumPy-Discussion@python.org >> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> > >> >> ___ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> NumPy-Discussion@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> > ___ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > -- Thomas Caswell tcasw...@gmail.com ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion

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 >

[Numpy-discussion] Matplotlib Research Software Engineering Fellow

2019-12-09 Thread Thomas Caswell
below for a link to the full job description and application instructions. The timeline on this is rather short, so applications are due Jan 3. https://discourse.matplotlib.org/t/now-hiring-matplotlib-research-software-engineering-fellow/20701 Tom and Hannah -- Thomas Caswell tcasw...@gmail.com

[Numpy-discussion] Proposal to accept NEP #29: Recommend Python and Numpy version support as a community policy standard

2019-09-06 Thread Thomas Caswell
; see NEP 0 for more details. Tom -- Thomas Caswell tcasw...@gmail.com ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion

[Numpy-discussion] NEP 28 — A standard community policy for dropping support of old Python and NumPy versions

2019-07-23 Thread Thomas Caswell
as there are many interested parties (from the other projects) that may not be subscribed to the numpy mailing list. Tom -- Thomas Caswell tcasw...@gmail.com ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman

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] Issue with setup_requires and 1.16 release candidates

2019-01-06 Thread Thomas Robitaille
Hi Ralf, On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 at 22:06, Ralf Gommers wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 12:45 PM Thomas Robitaille > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Back in December I started getting failures in continuous integration >> as well as reports of fai

[Numpy-discussion] Issue with setup_requires and 1.16 release candidates

2019-01-06 Thread Thomas Robitaille
Hi all, Back in December I started getting failures in continuous integration as well as reports of failures from users of installation issues for a couple of packages. The problem can be easily reproduced in a Docker container with: FROM ubuntu:16.04 RUN apt-get update RUN apt-get insta

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Search not working on www.numpy.org/devdocs/search.html

2018-09-21 Thread Thomas Caswell
I suspect this is due to issues with sphinx 1.8.0. Matplotlib also has this problem (see https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/12183). Tom On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 10:47 AM Matti Picus wrote: > I can enter a search term (say `ndarray`) in > www.numpy.org/devdocs/search.html, but the res

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to accept NEP 22: Duck typing for NumPy arrays

2018-09-21 Thread Thomas Caswell
I think the NEP does a very good job of capturing the high-level issue around duck arrays and will serve as a solid base to build future discussions on. With my Matplotlib and h5py hats on, I like the discussion about how down stream projects need to work out their issues with the support of the N

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [REL] Matplotlib 3.0.0

2018-09-19 Thread Thomas Caswell
/ twice, the browser helpfully added (1) to the name, when I when to upload everything twine got half way through and failed out on that file. I thought it had done everything else, but it had actually only done everything up to that file. On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 8:43 PM Thomas Caswell wrote: > Fo

[Numpy-discussion] [REL] Matplotlib 3.0.0

2018-09-18 Thread Thomas Caswell
Folks, Happy to announce Matplotlib 3.0.0! This is the first version of Matplotlib to only support Python 3. If you need Python 2.7 support the 2.2.x LTS series will continue to receive critical bug-fixes until 2020. Highlights of this release include: - GUI backend is selected at run-time ba

Re: [Numpy-discussion] new NEP: np.AbstractArray and np.asabstractarray

2018-03-17 Thread Thomas Caswell
Yes, meant IntFlag :sheep: On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 6:02 PM Hameer Abbasi wrote: > > It would be nice if there was an IntEnum [1] that was taken is an input to > `np.asarrayish` and `np.isarrayish` to require a combination of the groups > of attributes/methods/semantics. > > > Don’t you mean IntF

Re: [Numpy-discussion] new NEP: np.AbstractArray and np.asabstractarray

2018-03-17 Thread Thomas Caswell
It would be nice if there was an IntEnum [1] that was taken is an input to `np.asarrayish` and `np.isarrayish` to require a combination of the groups of attributes/methods/semantics. Tom [1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html#intenum On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 7:14 PM Marten van Kerkwijk <

Re: [Numpy-discussion] PR to add a function to calculate histogram edges without calculating the histogram

2018-03-15 Thread Thomas Caswell
Yes I like the name. The primary use-case for Matplotlib is that our `hist` method can take in a list of arrays and produces N histograms in one shot. Currently with 'auto' we only use the first data set to sort out what the bins should be and then re-use those for the rest of the data sets. This

Re: [Numpy-discussion] PR to add a function to calculate histogram edges without calculating the histogram

2018-03-12 Thread Thomas Caswell
As commented in the OP, this would be very useful for Matplotlib. Tom On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 1:42 PM Kirit Thadaka wrote: > Hi! > > I've created a PR to add a function called "histogram_bin_edges" which > will allow a user to calculate the bins used by the histogram for some data > without requ

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NumPy should not silently promote numbers to strings

2018-02-14 Thread Thomas Caswell
This has recently been a major point point for Matplotlib for the implementation of string-categoricals as well. Having numpy go to object or fail on `np.asarray([1, 2, 'foo'])` would make things much easier for us. Tom On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 2:22 AM Stephan Hoyer wrote: > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with python3.7

2017-12-15 Thread Thomas Caswell
I have been building numpy master with CPython master but am also using cython master. My not-pretty script for doing this is: #! /usr/bin/bash set -e TARGET_ENV=bleeding OSPATH=~/source/other_source/ pushd $OSPATH/cpython/ git pull git clean -xfd ./configure make -j 9 ./python -m venv --copies

[Numpy-discussion] [REL] Matplotlib 2.1.1

2017-12-11 Thread Thomas Caswell
Folks, Happy to announce Matplotlib 2.1.1 This is primarily a bug fix release, see https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/releases/tag/v2.1.1 for details. The next planned release is a 2.2 feature release in January/February 2018. Thank you to everyone who worked on this release! Tom ___

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal of timeline for dropping Python 2.7 support

2017-11-13 Thread Thomas Caswell
I am in very supportive of this plan. For Matplotlib the intention is to do a mpl2.2LTS early 2018 and a mpl3.0 (no major API breaks other than dropping py2 support) summer 2018 with the same meaning of LTS. I also had thought about bumping the minimum numpy version of Matplotlib to the first py3

Re: [Numpy-discussion] converting list of int16 values to bitmask and back to bitmask and back to list of int32\float values

2017-10-08 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 08/10/17 22:50, Thomas Jollans wrote: > On 08/10/17 09:12, Nissim Derdiger wrote: >> Hi again, >> I realize that my question was not clear enough, so I've refined it into one >> runnable function (attached below) >> My question is basically - is there a way to

Re: [Numpy-discussion] converting list of int16 values to bitmask and back to bitmask and back to list of int32\float values

2017-10-08 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 08/10/17 09:12, Nissim Derdiger wrote: > Hi again, > I realize that my question was not clear enough, so I've refined it into one > runnable function (attached below) > My question is basically - is there a way to perform the same operation, but > faster using NumPy (or even just by using Pyth

[Numpy-discussion] [ANN] Matplotlib 2.1 released

2017-10-07 Thread Thomas Caswell
We are happy to announce the release of Matplotlib 2.1. This is the second minor release in the Matplotlib 2.x series and the first release with major new features since 1.5. This release contains approximately 2 years worth of work by 275 contributors across over 950 pull requests. Highlights fr

Re: [Numpy-discussion] floor with dtype

2017-09-25 Thread Thomas Jollans
get the integers. > > tx. > R. > > > -- > Renato Fabbri > GNU/Linux User #479299 > labmacambira.sourceforge.net <http://labmacambira.sourceforge.net> > > > ___ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Numpy-discussion] ANN: SciPy 1.0 beta release

2017-09-17 Thread Thomas Caswell
It seems major versions are in the air! For matplotlib 2.0 we put together http://matplotlib.org/users/dflt_style_changes.html for the style changes which shows the new behavior, the old behavior, and how to get the old behavior back. Tom On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 10:48 AM Ilhan Polat wrote: >

Re: [Numpy-discussion] np.array, copy=False and memmap

2017-09-06 Thread Thomas Jollans
py is false, if y is a memmap and in that case return a full memmap > object > instead of slicing it? > > Best wishes > Isaia > > P.S. A longer account of the issue may be found on my university blog > http://www.im.ufrj.br/nisoli/blog/?p=131 > > -- > Isaia Nisoli > > > > ___ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > -- Thomas Jollans ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion

Re: [Numpy-discussion] pytest and degrees of separation.

2017-07-11 Thread Thomas Caswell
Going with option 2 is probably the best option so that you can use pytest fixtures and parameterization. Might be worth looking at how Matplotlib re-arranged things on our master branch to maintain back-compatibility with nose-specific tools that were used by down-stream projects. Tom On Tue, J

Re: [Numpy-discussion] record data previous to Numpy use

2017-07-05 Thread Thomas Caswell
Are you tied to ASCII files? HDF5 (via h5py or pytables) might be a better storage format for what you are describing. Tom On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 8:42 AM wrote: > Dear all > > > I’m sorry if my question is too basic (not fully in relation to Numpy – > while it is to build matrices and to work

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Array and string interoperability

2017-06-05 Thread Thomas Jollans
note that another part of the discussion previously suggested that we > have a dtype that wraps a native python string object -- then you'd > get all for free. This is essentially an object array with strings in > it, which you can do now. > > -CHB > > > -- > >

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Array and string interoperability

2017-06-04 Thread Thomas Jollans
t; should be possible to use directly on normal integer arrays without > conversions to other array types. > So I personally don't realy get why the need of additional chararray type, > Its all numbers anyway and it's up to the programmer to > decide what size of translation tables/value ranges he wants to use. chararray is deprecated. > There can be some convinience methods for ascii operations, > like eg char.toupper(), but currently they don't seem to work with integer > arrays so why not make those potentially useful methots usable > and make them work on normal integer arrays? I don't know what you're doing, but I don't think numpy is normally the right tool for text manipulation... > [snip] > > as a side-note, I don't think that encoding should be assumed much for > creating new array types, it is up to the programmer > to decide what 'meanings' the bytes have. Agreed! -- Thomas ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion

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