NumPy chararray and whitespace

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Hi. I'm trying to use NumPy's chararray class for an array of
characters. I notice that when I try to set a chararray element to a
space, it actually gets set to an empty string. I found some pages
online indicating that the chararray strips trailing whitespace from its
values.

I am really, really, hoping this is not a hard-coded, unalterable
behavior. Is there a way to get NumPy chararray to include the
characters I tell it to, without modificiation?

Thanks,
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Brendan Barnwell
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[Robert Kern]

Hi. I'm trying to use NumPy's chararray class for an array of
characters. I notice that when I try to set a chararray element to a
space, it actually gets set to an empty string. I found some pages
online indicating that the chararray strips trailing whitespace from its
values.

You should ask numpy questions on the numpy mailing list.

http://www.scipy.org/Mailing_Lists

I am really, really, hoping this is not a hard-coded, unalterable
behavior. Is there a way to get NumPy chararray to include the
characters I tell it to, without modificiation?

Sure. Just subclass chararray and redefine __getitem__ to do what you want.

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Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco