On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> For cases where people genuinely want to implement a new array-like
> types (e.g. DataFrame or scipy.sparse) then numpy provides a fair
> amount of support for this already (e.g., the various hooks that allow
> things like np.asarray(mydf)
Hopefully this is not TL;DR!
Their are 3 'dtype' likes that exist in pandas that could in theory mostly
be migrated back to numpy. These currently exist as the .values in-other-words
the object to which pandas defers data storage and computation for
some/most of operations.
1) SparseArray: This i
