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author | A Chethan Reddy <69640722+chethanreddy123@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-01-16 23:35:12 +0530 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-01-16 19:05:12 +0100 |
commit | 1c93bd674aa6e8f6527a33a32b30eb39c82692f0 (patch) | |
tree | df8294795600a96a6ad7019fc437f2cd98033109 /doc/source/user | |
parent | 6b5cd92675139511b4b24ddfe822e96b03700edb (diff) | |
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DOC: Structured array doc update to note `dtype[name]` (#22723)
Add note that name access of structured dtypes is allowed.
Co-authored-by: Ross Barnowski <rossbar@berkeley.edu>
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diff --git a/doc/source/user/basics.rec.rst b/doc/source/user/basics.rec.rst index b56b4d177..640cfaa8b 100644 --- a/doc/source/user/basics.rec.rst +++ b/doc/source/user/basics.rec.rst @@ -166,6 +166,11 @@ attribute of the dtype object:: >>> d.names ('x', 'y') +The dtype of each individual field can be looked up by name:: + + >>> d['x'] + dtype('int64') + The field names may be modified by assigning to the ``names`` attribute using a sequence of strings of the same length. |