I just tend to think in terms of lists rather than tuples. Why is a tuple a more reasonable choice than a list? (I'm really asking and not being argumentative, since you can't hear my tone.)
Ryan On 7/30/07, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ryan Krauss wrote: > > In writing a function to parse my data, I ran into some unexpected > > behavior. Is it intentional that a recarray can only be created by a > > list of tuples and not by a list of lists? > > Yeah. The array() constructor needs some information for it to work its magic. > Requiring tuples for the actual records is an arbitrary choice, but a > reasonable > one given that. > > -- > Robert Kern > > "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma > that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had > an underlying truth." > -- Umberto Eco > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
