On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 01:04:53PM -0400, Alan G Isaac wrote: > On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Stéfan van der Walt apparently wrote: > > The agreement was: > > a) That x[0][0] should be equal to x[0,0] and > > b) That x[0,:] should be equal to x[0] (as for ndarrays)
> 1. This is **not** what I understood as the agreement > (and I think the current solution is bad). > I certainly did not mean to support the change that > as implemented, and it is not clear to me that others > did either. > 2. These two goals are substantially in conflict for > matrices, as we are seeing. > 3. The important goal, (goal a., which everyone agrees on), > has NOT been accomplished by the current change: > x[0][0] raises a TypeError when x is a 1 by N matrix. I claim b is more important than a. IMHO, a is plain wrong: you should't be indexing x with x[0][0]. I am OK making a work, as long as it doesn't break b. In addition breaking be is backward incompatible changes for no good reason (replacing one missfeature with another). I would like this issue addressed in next release, not this one. I have the feeling the discussion is not sane enough, right now. Cheers, Gaël _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
