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Language defining a data description protocol
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allow an arbitrary string for encoding parameter to String type #173

Open cpcloud opened 9 years ago

cpcloud commented 9 years ago

I think we're being unnecessarily restrictive here as we're don't actually do anything with the encoding except keep it around for other systems to use. We occasionally translate fixed length string types to a numpy dtype, in which case we would raise if the encoding doesn't make sense in numpy land.

cpcloud commented 9 years ago

motivated by this blaze issue: https://github.com/blaze/blaze/issues/1188