[Numpy-discussion] NumPy dtype API improvement suggestion

[Feng Yu]

Hi,

Would it be possible to also allow a byte offset for the field? e.g.,

class Point(np.struct):
  x: np.field('i4', offset=8)
  y: np.field('<f8', offset=32)

Best,

Yu

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 9:32 AM Kevin Sheppard <kevin.k.sheppard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Better would be to have an object like NamedTuple in typing that would
> allow
>
> class Point(DType):
>     x: np.int16
>     y: np.int16
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 3:22 PM Eyal Kutz <eyal.kutz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am interested in suggesting an API improvement for NumPy.
>> I wish to make it so that the following code:
>> @np.dtype
>> class Point:
>>     x: np.int16
>>     y: np.int16
>> would be equivalent to the following code:
>> Point = np.dtype([('x', np.int16), ('y', np.int16)])
>>
>> I am willing to submit the code changes required to make this happen.
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