ther to return a recarray or a mrecarray (`asrecarray=True`) or a plain ndarray or masked array with flexible dtype. The default is False. Examples -------- >>> from numpy.lib import recfunctions as rfn >>> a = np.array([(1, (2, 3.0)), (4, (5, 6.0))], ... dtype=[('a', np.int64), ('b', [('ba', np.double), ('bb', np.int64)])]) >>> rfn.drop_fields(a, 'a') array([((2., 3),), ((5., 6),)], dtype=[('b', [('ba', '>> rfn.drop_fields(a, 'ba') array([(1, (3,)), (4, (6,))], dtype=[('a', '>> rfn.drop_fields(a, ['ba', 'bb']) array([(1,), (4,)], dtype=[('a', '