[Numpy-discussion] proposal: smaller representation of string arrays

[Chris Barker - NOAA Federal]

Actually, for what it's worth, the FITS spec says that in such values
trailing spaces are not significant, see page 7:
https://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/standard40/fits_standard40draft1.pdf
But they're not really relevant to numpy's situation, because as here you
need to do elaborate de-quoting before they can go into a data structure.
What I was wondering was whether people have data lying around with
fixed-width fields where the strings are space-padded, so that numpy needs
to support that.


I would say whether to strip space-padded strings should be the reader's
problem, not numpy's

-CHB
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