[Numpy-discussion] Datetime again

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Thu Jan 22 09:54:49 EST 2015


On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm playing with the idea of building a simplified datetime class on top of
> the current numpy implementation. I believe Pandas does something like this,
> and blaze will (does?) have a simplified version. The reason for the new
> class would be to have an easier, and hopefully more portable, API that can
> be implemented in Python, and maybe pushed down into C when things settle.

When you say "datetime class" what do you mean? A dtype? An ndarray
subclass? A python class representing a scalar datetime that you can
put in an object array? ...?

-n

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Nathaniel J. Smith
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