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authorEric Wieser <wieser.eric@gmail.com>2019-05-07 01:14:55 -0700
committerEric Wieser <wieser.eric@gmail.com>2019-05-07 01:14:55 -0700
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BUG/ENH: Create npy format 3.0
This version encodes the dtype as utf8 instead of latin1. Unfortunately we need to create a new version to make this change, because we did not limit ourselves to ASCII in versions 1 and 2. Fixes gh-7391
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@@ -149,6 +149,11 @@ Floating point scalars implement ``as_integer_ratio`` to match the builtin float
This returns a (numerator, denominator) pair, which can be used to construct a
`fractions.Fraction`.
+``.npy`` files support unicode field names
+------------------------------------------
+A new format version of 3.0 has been introduced, which enables structured types
+with non-latin1 field names. This is used automatically when needed.
+
Improvements
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