[Numpy-discussion] bug ? in Records arrays in numarray

[Sebastian Haase]

On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:49 pm, Todd Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 17:52, Sebastian Haase wrote:
> > OK,
> > I'm still trying to get a handle on these record arrays - because I think
> > they are pretty cool, if I could get them to work...
> > Following the code from yesterday (see that posting below) I discovered
> > this: main.ring4ext[0][0]   is not the same as   main.ring4ext[0,0]
> > is this intended ??
> >
> > >>> main.ring4ext[0][0]
> >
> > (2308, 76, 272, 1088481152.0, 104.18000030517578, 1994.949951171875)
> >
> > >>> main.ring4ext[0,0]
> >
> > (array([2308, 2309]), array([76, 76]), array([272, 269]), array([ 
> > 1.08848115e +09,   1.08848115e+09], type=Float32), array([ 104.18000031, 
> > 104.45999908], type=Float32), array([ 1994.94995117,  1994.95996094],
> > type=Float32))
> >
> > >>> main.ring4ext.shape    # yesterday I had this different !!! (20,1)
> >
> > (20, 2)
> >
> > Any comments are appreciated,
>
> I talked to JC Hsu, the numarray.records author, and he explained that
> we're probably looking at a limitation of numarray.records: it doesn't
> yet handle multi-dimensional arrays of records.  JC indicated he had
> replied to Sebastian,  but for the benefit of everyone else, that's the
> deal.
>
> Regards,
> Todd
>

Thanks,
but it actually seems to work well now, as long as I use myRecArray[i][j] 
instead of myRecArray[i,j].
So, it looks like there is not missing much.
I'll keep your "official statement" in mind when I explore this further...

Thanks again,
Sebastian Haase