On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 06:02:53PM -0400, Alan G Isaac wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Stéfan van der Walt apparently wrote: > > I showed you exactly where your proposal breaks down -- > > numerous times: x[0] is no longer the same as x[0,:]
> And as I explained back: this is a good thing (TM). > There is no need for these to be the same. [...] > What it gains is that x[i][j] == x[i,j]. I am sorry, I don't see why you prioritize "x[i][j] == x[i,j]" (1) more than "x[0] == x[0,:]" (2). For me it is the other way around, because we should be encouraging users not to use "x[i][j]", which is a very poor way of indexing compared to "x[i,j]". The first requires two __getitem__ calls and an object creation, whereas the first requires only one, and no object creation. Gaël _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
