Python学习- 边读边疑问（to be continued..)

1. The difference between numpy structured array and Pandas Dataframe:

we make use of a data format that consists of a set of numpy structured arrays. Conceptually, it is similar to a set of CSV files with records and different columns, only that they are stored as binary files instead of text. Structured arrays can be directly memory mapped from disk.

• 原来都是为了速度！
• 使用dtype创建结构性数组
  官方文档 ¹

data = np.zeros(3,dtype=[('color', int8, (3,),),('age',int64)]
data = np.zeros(3, dtype = '3int8,int64)

2. 为什么有的方法后面有括号，有的没有？ 比如 ndarray类：

nda.flat , nda.ravel() 都返回一个flattened的ndarray

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1. https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-1.13.0/user/basics.rec.html ↩︎