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| author | Allan Haldane <allan.haldane@gmail.com> | 2015-01-16 23:53:41 -0500 |
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| committer | Allan Haldane <allan.haldane@gmail.com> | 2015-01-22 17:36:43 -0500 |
| commit | 1bd0b4e8f176cd80e81b5f50832db5f8ba1ee1e9 (patch) | |
| tree | fce876400e049c7927cfe4b62ee4d1ca00a8ed7b /doc/source/reference/arrays.classes.rst | |
| parent | b69035e8ea28bd759b929822aaba544d3c5f8c30 (diff) | |
| download | numpy-1bd0b4e8f176cd80e81b5f50832db5f8ba1ee1e9.tar.gz | |
DOC: improve record/structured array nomenclature & guide
This update adds a section better describing record arrays in the user
guide (numpy/doc/structured_arrays.py).
It also corrects nomenclature, such that "structured array" refers to
ndarrays with structured dtype, "record array" refers to modified
ndarrays as created by np.rec.array, and "recarray" refers to ndarrays
viewed as np.recarray. See the note at the end of the structured
array user guide.
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diff --git a/doc/source/reference/arrays.classes.rst b/doc/source/reference/arrays.classes.rst index e77dfc31e..caaf3a73b 100644 --- a/doc/source/reference/arrays.classes.rst +++ b/doc/source/reference/arrays.classes.rst @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ Record arrays (:mod:`numpy.rec`) :ref:`arrays.dtypes`. Numpy provides the :class:`recarray` class which allows accessing the -fields of a record/structured array as attributes, and a corresponding +fields of a structured array as attributes, and a corresponding scalar data type object :class:`record`. .. currentmodule:: numpy |