It can be natural to change an axis using setattr (as gb tried to do) but it leads to a very confusing problem where the real array axis is different from the attribute axis. For example, to change the type of an axis:
>>> arr = ndtest('a=1,2,total')[:'2']
>>> arr.a.dtype
dtype('<U21')
>>> arr.a = arr.a.astype(int)
>>> arr.a.dtype
dtype('int64')
>>> arr.axes['a'].dtype
dtype('<U21')
>>> arr.a is arr.axes['a']
False
We should either make it work or make it an explicit error.
It can be natural to change an axis using setattr (as gb tried to do) but it leads to a very confusing problem where the real array axis is different from the attribute axis. For example, to change the type of an axis:
We should either make it work or make it an explicit error.