[Numpy-discussion] Struct alignment

[David Cournapeau]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn
<dagss@student.matnat.uio.no> wrote:
> I'm looking at fixing up support for NumPy record arrays in Cython, and
> realize my knowledge of NumPy is a bit too limited. Searching the docs
> didn't enlighten me, so:
>
> Does NumPy always use packed alignment for nested dtypes?

No, you may have to pad "manually" depending on what you want.
Sometimes, the align argument is enough, though:

a = dtype([('f0', '<f4'), ('f1', '|i1'), ('f2', '<i4')], align=True)
a.itemsize # 12 on 32 bits arch

David