From 65cc08216ffcd7a330f7a44991cd46bd0f14aa51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pauli Virtanen Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 19:29:38 +0000 Subject: Docstring update: doc/source/reference --- doc/source/reference/arrays.classes.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/source/reference/arrays.classes.rst') diff --git a/doc/source/reference/arrays.classes.rst b/doc/source/reference/arrays.classes.rst index f9abfbafa..9e94d5c4d 100644 --- a/doc/source/reference/arrays.classes.rst +++ b/doc/source/reference/arrays.classes.rst @@ -227,6 +227,11 @@ Character arrays (:mod:`numpy.char`) .. index:: single: character arrays +.. note:: + The chararray module exists for backwards compatibility with Numarray, + it is not recommended for new development. If one needs arrays of + strings, use arrays of `dtype` object. + These are enhanced arrays of either :class:`string` type or :class:`unicode_` type. These arrays inherit from the :class:`ndarray`, but specially-define the operations ``+``, ``*``, -- cgit v1.2.1