Re: [Numpy-discussion] recarray.__setattr__ bug?

[Pierre GM <pgm...@gm...>]

On Saturday 28 October 2006 14:28, Travis Oliphant wrote:
>
> Hmm.... I know that the code was changed at some point a few months ago
> specifically to this behavior because of some concerns Perry, Chris
> (people at STScI) had.   Originally, field names came first, but we
> changed it so they could set known attributes of a record array even if
> they were also field names.

So that I could have a field named 'shape', and modifying 
r.shape
would change the shape of the array, not the content of the field ?

That makes sense, but isn't it a bit dangerous ? Shouldn't we have a list of 
reserved keywords (dtype, shape...) that would raise an exception if used as 
field names ?