On Feb 9, 2010, at 8:16 PM, John Hunter wrote: >> I still think these functions are more generic than the rec_ prefix let >> think, and I'd still prefer a decision being made about what should go in >> the module before thinking too hard about how to advertise it. > > I would love to see many of these as methods of record/structured > arrays, so we could say
Won't work w/ structured arrays, but completely doable for recarrays. Let's define the functions so that they take a structured array as first argument when possible, and add the functions as a methods to np.recarray. That should be fairly transparent, provided we stick to access-as-key instead of access-as-attribute > and have "totxt", "tocsv". etc... from rec2txt, rec2csv, etc... I > think the functionality of mlab.rec_summarize and rec_groupby is very > useful, but the interface is a bit clunky and could be made easier for > the common use cases. Are you going to work on it or should I step in (in a few weeks...). _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
