[Numpy-discussion] Documenting chararrays

[Alan McIntyre]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Stéfan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Should we document character arrays?  Does anybody still use them?
>
> I think their behaviour can largely be duplicated by object arrays.
> They also seem to be broken:

FWIW, I've got issues and patches for a couple of chararray problems:
 __mul__ problem:  http://scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/855
 __mod__ problem: http://scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/856

I was wondering myself when I looked at the class whether anybody was
actually using it.  ;)  If it's to be replaced, we should probably
remove it from the compiled extension wishlist on
http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/ProjectIdeas.