On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Pavel Bazant <maxpla...@seznam.cz> wrote:
> Correct me if I am wrong, but the paragraph > > Note to those used to IDL or Fortran memory order as it relates to > indexing. Numpy uses C-order indexing. That means that the last index > usually (see xxx for exceptions) represents the most rapidly changing memory > location, unlike Fortran or IDL, where the first index represents the most > rapidly changing location in memory. This difference represents a great > potential for confusion. > > in > > http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/basics.indexing.html > > is quite misleading, as C-order means that the last index changes rapidly, > not the > memory location. > > Pavel > Sounds correct (your criticism, that is) but I'm no expert, so I'm going to wait another 12 hours or so - to give others a chance to chime in - before correcting it. DG -- Mathematician: noun, someone who disavows certainty when their uncertainty set is non-empty, even if that set has measure zero. Hope: noun, that delusive spirit which escaped Pandora's jar and, with her lies, prevents mankind from committing a general suicide. (As interpreted by Robert Graves)
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