[Numpy-discussion] recarray fun

[Stéfan van der Walt]

2008/5/1 Travis E. Oliphant <oliphant@enthought.com>:
> Stéfan van der Walt wrote:
>
>
> > 2008/5/1 Travis E. Oliphant <oliphant@enthought.com>:
>  >
>  >>  > OK, I see your point.  I'm working on a patch that does the following:
>  >>  >
>  >>  > def view(type_or_dtype=None, dtype=None, type=None):
>  >>  >     if type_or_dtype:
>  >>  >          if dtype:
>  >>  >              raise ValueError("Cannot specify dtype twice")
>  >>  >          if type:
>  >>  >              raise ValueError("Cannot specify type twice")
>  >>  >
>  >>  >         if isinstance(type_or_dtype,py_type):
>  >>  >             type = type_or_dtype
>  >>  >
>  >>  >         if isinstance(type_or_dtype,numpy_dtype):
>  >>  >             dtype = type_or_dtype
>  >>  >
>  >>  >     return x.view(type=type).view(dtype=dtype)
>  >>  >
>  >>  > Would that be a satisfying solution?  I'll be back around 21:00 SAST
>  >>  > to attend to the matter.
>  >>  >
>  >>
>  >>  Yes, I think that would work.   You need to do some checking for
>  >>  type=None and dtype=None as well, though.
>  >>
>  >>  That way, the first argument would continue to work as now but be
>  >>  labeled correctly, but it would also support dtype= and type= keywords.
>  >>
>  >
>  > Please review http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/changeset/5117.
>  >
>  >
>  Check out
>
>  http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/changeset/5119

I think that's fine.  It doesn't support weird combinations like

x.view(np.matrix,dtype=np.int32)

but people probably shouldn't do that anyway.

Cheers
Stéfan