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authorCharles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com>2018-11-23 19:08:51 -0600
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-11-23 19:08:51 -0600
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Merge pull request #11526 from ahaldane/add_struct_helper_funcs_redo
ENH: add multi-field assignment helpers in np.lib.recfunctions
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@@ -443,6 +443,15 @@ behavior since Numpy 1.7.
>>> repack_fields(a[['a','c']]).view('i8') # supported 1.15 and 1.16
array([0, 0, 0])
+ The :module:`numpy.lib.recfunctions` module has other new methods
+ introduced in numpy 1.16 to help users account for this change. These are
+ :func:`numpy.lib.recfunctions.structured_to_unstructured`,
+ :func:`numpy.lib.recfunctions.unstructured_to_structured`,
+ :func:`numpy.lib.recfunctions.apply_along_fields`,
+ :func:`numpy.lib.recfunctions.assign_fields_by_name`, and
+ :func:`numpy.lib.recfunctions.require_fields`.
+
+
Assigning to an array with a multi-field index will behave the same in Numpy
1.15 and Numpy 1.16. In both versions the assignment will modify the original
array::