[Numpy-discussion] Should dtypes have an ndim attribute?

[Andy Ray Terrel]

That's essentially what datashape did over in the blaze ecosystem. It gets
a bit fancier to support ragged arrays and optional types.

http://datashape.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
On Dec 10, 2015 5:14 AM, "Gerrit Holl" <gerrit.holl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have made a modest proposal in issue #6752
> <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/6752>.  Basically, the proposal
> is to add an `ndim` attribute to dtypes.  Currently, arrays have a
> shape and an ndim attribute, where ndim equals len(shape).  dtype
> objects have a shape attribute, but no corresponding ndim.
>
> An ndim attribute would help in immediately determining whether a
> field in a structured dtype is multidimensional or not.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Gerrit.
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