Re: [Numpy-discussion] String accessor methods

2021-03-07 Thread Sebastian Berg
On Sun, 2021-03-07 at 09:34 +, Kevin Sheppard wrote: > I think that and string functions that are exposed from an ndarray > would > have to be guaranteed to work in-place. Requiring casting to objects > to use > the methods feels more like syntactic sugar than an essential case. I > think > mos

Re: [Numpy-discussion] String accessor methods

2021-03-07 Thread Kevin Sheppard
I think that and string functions that are exposed from an ndarray would have to be guaranteed to work in-place. Requiring casting to objects to use the methods feels more like syntactic sugar than an essential case. I think most of the ones mentioned are low performance and can't take advantage of

Re: [Numpy-discussion] String accessor methods

2021-03-06 Thread Todd
On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 12:57 PM dan_patterson wrote: > The are in np.char > > mystr = np.array(["test first", "test second", "test third"]) > > np.char.title(mystr) > array(['Test First', 'Test Second', 'Test Third'], dtype=' I mentioned those in my email, but they are far less convenient to us

Re: [Numpy-discussion] String accessor methods

2021-03-06 Thread dan_patterson
The are in np.char mystr = np.array(["test first", "test second", "test third"]) np.char.title(mystr) array(['Test First', 'Test Second', 'Test Third'], dtype='http://numpy-discussion.10968.n7.nabble.com/ ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discuss

[Numpy-discussion] String accessor methods

2021-03-06 Thread Todd
Currently. working with strings in numpy is not very convenient. You have to use a separate set of functions in a separate namespace, and those functions are relatively limited and poorly-documented. A solution several other projects, including pandas [0] and xarray [1], have found are string acce