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

[Michael M. F. <mf...@ph...>]

In article <454...@ie...>,
 Travis Oliphant <oli...@ie...> 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.
> 
> This may be an unintentional side-effect.    So, let's not just change 
> things again and create problems for them.

Were any test cases generated for this?  Changing the code did not break 
anything: if this is important, a test should probably be added.

Michael.