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| author | Stefan van der Walt <stefanv@berkeley.edu> | 2018-07-25 11:23:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Stefan van der Walt <stefanv@berkeley.edu> | 2018-07-25 11:23:02 -0700 |
| commit | 67e7414910c6ea90940f767e037cebe10bb4d86d (patch) | |
| tree | 75ba01e3a8c255ff8c242980d8f339714c0db092 /doc/neps | |
| parent | 3382382eb35bc1de48198a7858ccad4d952432f3 (diff) | |
| download | numpy-67e7414910c6ea90940f767e037cebe10bb4d86d.tar.gz | |
Clarify fixed-width storage strings.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/neps/roadmap.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/neps/roadmap.rst b/doc/neps/roadmap.rst index b7e407244..c9c1976c9 100644 --- a/doc/neps/roadmap.rst +++ b/doc/neps/roadmap.rst @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Better dtypes - More consistent support for dtype metadata - Support for writing a dtype in Python - New string dtype(s): - - Fixed width encoded strings (utf8, latin1, ...) + - Encoded strings with fixed-width storage (utf8, latin1, ...) - Variable length strings (could share implementation with dtype=object, but are explicitly type-checked) - One of these should probably be the default for text data. The current behavior on Python 3 is neither efficient nor user friendly. - `np.int` should not be platform dependent |