[Numpy-discussion] Reductions and binary ops on recarrays...

[Stéfan van der Walt]

2009/7/30 Fernando Perez <fperez.net@gmail.com>:
> we recently had a discussion about being able to do some common things
> like reductions and binary operations on recarrays, and there didn't
> seem to be much consensus on it being needed in the core of numpy.
>
> Since  we do actually need this quite pressingly for everyday tasks,
> we wrote a very simple version of this today, I'm attaching it here in
> case it proves useful to others.

I'm in favour of such a patch, but I'd like to see whether we can't do
it at the C level for structured arrays in general.

Regards
Stéfan