[Numpy-discussion] Some comments on the Numeric3 Draft of 1-M ar-05

[konrad.hinsen at laposte.net]

On 03.03.2005, at 00:23, Sebastien.deMentendeHorne at electrabel.com wrote:

> Another useful type for arrays representing physical values would be an
> array that keeps vectors for each dimension with index values. For 
> instance,
> an object representing temperature at a given time in a given location 
> would
> consist in
>     data = N x M array of Float64 = [ [ 23, 34, 23], [ 31, 28,29] ]
>     first_axis = N array of time = [ "01/01/2004", "02/01/2004" ]
>     second_axis = M array of location = [ "Paris", "New York" ]
>
> All slicing operation would equivalently slice the corresponding axis.

That is indeed useful, but rather a class written using arrays than a 
variety of the basic array type.

It's actually pretty straightforward to implement, the most difficult 
choice being the form of the constructor that gives most flexibility in 
use.

Konrad.