spacepy.datamodel.toRecArray

spacepy.datamodel.toRecArray(sdo)

Takes a SpaceData and creates a numpy recarray

Parameters:

sdoSpaceData

SpaceData to change to a numpy recarray

Returns:

recarr: numpy record array

numpy.recarray object with the same values (attributes are lost)

Examples

>>> import numpy as np
>>> import spacepy.datamodel as dm
>>> sd = dm.SpaceData()
>>> sd['x'] = dm.dmarray([1.0, 2.0])
>>> sd['y'] = dm.dmarray([2,4])
>>> sd.tree(verbose=1)
+
|____x (spacepy.datamodel.dmarray (2,))
|____y (spacepy.datamodel.dmarray (2,))
>>> ra = dm.toRecArray(sd)
>>> print(ra, ra.dtype)
[(2, 1.0) (4, 2.0)] (numpy.record, [('y', '<i8'), ('x', '<f8')])