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| author | Erik M. Bray <erik.bray@lri.fr> | 2016-06-13 10:53:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Erik M. Bray <erik.bray@lri.fr> | 2016-06-13 10:53:02 +0200 |
| commit | abbf7945ee90680a2dde932be2968ed7fa85f46c (patch) | |
| tree | dc652cdcffa056898bccdd6d092511a694b33a0f /doc | |
| parent | 541fd509c24e9d3f94b478b3d09c8ac1b0c0d207 (diff) | |
| download | numpy-abbf7945ee90680a2dde932be2968ed7fa85f46c.tar.gz | |
DOC: Mention the changes of #6430 in the release notes.
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diff --git a/doc/release/1.12.0-notes.rst b/doc/release/1.12.0-notes.rst index 0049a1f6f..aaa62e2ac 100644 --- a/doc/release/1.12.0-notes.rst +++ b/doc/release/1.12.0-notes.rst @@ -199,6 +199,14 @@ longer grow without bounds. They have been replaced with LRU (least recently used) caches that automatically evict no longer needed items if either the memory size or item count limit has been reached. +Improved handling of zero-width string/unicode dtypes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Fixed several interfaces that explicitly disallowed arrays with zero-width +string dtypes (i.e. ``dtype('S0')`` or ``dtype('U0')``, and fixed several +bugs where such dtypes were not handled properly. In particular, changed +``ndarray.__new__`` to not implicitly convert ``dtype('S0')`` to +``dtype('S1')`` (and likewise for unicode) when creating new arrays. + Changes ======= |