[Numpy-discussion] Remove sctypeNA and typeNA from numpy core

2018-06-21 Thread Matti Picus
numpy.core has many ways to catalogue dtype names: sctypeDict, typeDict (which is precisely sctypeDict), typecodes, and typename. We also generate sctypeNA and typeNA but, as issue 11241 shows, it is sometimes wrong. They are also not documented and never used inside numpy. Instead of fixing it

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Remove sctypeNA and typeNA from numpy core

2018-06-21 Thread Matti Picus
On 21/06/18 09:25, Matti Picus wrote: numpy.core has many ways to catalogue dtype names: sctypeDict, typeDict (which is precisely sctypeDict), typecodes, and typename. We also generate sctypeNA and typeNA but, as issue 11241 shows, it is sometimes wrong. They are also not documented and never u

[Numpy-discussion] NumPy 1.15.0rc1 released

2018-06-21 Thread Charles R Harris
Hi All, On behalf of the NumPy team I'm pleased to announce the release of NumPy 1.15.0rc1. This release has an unusual number of cleanups, many deprecations of old functions, and improvements to many existing functions. A total of 423 pull reguests were merged for this release, please look at the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Remove sctypeNA and typeNA from numpy core

2018-06-21 Thread Sebastian Berg
On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 09:25 -0700, Matti Picus wrote: > numpy.core has many ways to catalogue dtype names: sctypeDict, > typeDict > (which is precisely sctypeDict), typecodes, and typename. We also > generate sctypeNA and typeNA but, as issue 11241 shows, it is > sometimes > wrong. They are also

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Remove sctypeNA and typeNA from numpy core

2018-06-21 Thread Eric Wieser
> I bet the NA is for the missing value support thatnever happened Nope - NA stands for NumArray Eric On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 at 11:07 Sebastian Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 09:25 -0700, Matti Picus wrote: > > numpy.core has many ways to catalogue dtype names: sctypeDict, > > typeDict > > (