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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy/lib/recfunctions.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/lib/recfunctions.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/lib/recfunctions.py b/numpy/lib/recfunctions.py index 40060b41a..8011f5363 100644 --- a/numpy/lib/recfunctions.py +++ b/numpy/lib/recfunctions.py @@ -527,6 +527,10 @@ def drop_fields(base, drop_names, usemask=True, asrecarray=False): Nested fields are supported. + ..versionchanged: 1.18.0 + `drop_fields` returns an array with 0 fields if all fields are dropped, + rather than returning ``None`` as it did previously. + Parameters ---------- base : array @@ -566,7 +570,7 @@ def drop_fields(base, drop_names, usemask=True, asrecarray=False): current = ndtype[name] if name in drop_names: continue - if current.names: + if current.names is not None: descr = _drop_descr(current, drop_names) if descr: newdtype.append((name, descr)) @@ -575,8 +579,6 @@ def drop_fields(base, drop_names, usemask=True, asrecarray=False): return newdtype newdtype = _drop_descr(base.dtype, drop_names) - if not newdtype: - return None output = np.empty(base.shape, dtype=newdtype) output = recursive_fill_fields(base, output) |