On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, "Travis E. Oliphant" apparently wrote: > The point is that a matrix object is a > matrix object and not a generic container.
I see the point a bit differently: there are costs and benefits to the abandonment of a specific and natural behavior of containers. (The kind of behavior that arrays have.) The costs outweigh the benefits. > stop believing that M[0][0] and M[0,0] should return the > same thing. There is nothing in Python that requires > this. I never suggested there is. My question "how to guess?" does not imply that. My point is: the matrix object could have more intuitive behavior with no loss of functionality. Or so it seems to me. See my other post. Cheers, Alan _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
