On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Charles R Harris > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm playing with the idea of building a simplified datetime class on top > of > > the current numpy implementation. I believe Pandas does something like > this, > > and blaze will (does?) have a simplified version. The reason for the new > > class would be to have an easier, and hopefully more portable, API that > can > > be implemented in Python, and maybe pushed down into C when things > settle. > > When you say "datetime class" what do you mean? A dtype? An ndarray > subclass? A python class representing a scalar datetime that you can > put in an object array? ...? > I was thinking an ndarray subclass that is based on a single datetime type, but part of the reason for this post is to elicit ideas. I'm influenced by Mark's discussion apropos blaze <https://github.com/ContinuumIO/blaze/blob/master/docs/design/blaze-datetime.md>. I thought it easier to start such a project in python, as it is far easier for people interested in the problem to work with. Chuck
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