[Numpy-discussion] record array with array elements

[Robert Kern]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 22:04, Igor Sylvester <igorsyl@gmail.com> wrote:
> If array fields should be of the form (name,subdtype, shape), how do I
> specify field offsets? My datatype is word-aligned.

With dtype(some_list), you need to explicitly include the padding.
E.g. ('', '|V4') to add 4 bytes of padding. Alternately, you can use
dtype(some_dict):

dtype(dict(
  names=['x', 'y'],
  formats=['u1', ('u1', (2,2))],
  offsets=[0, 4],
))

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Robert Kern

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