>> >> >> This is expected behavior. It's how the concatenate Python function >> manages to handle axis=None to flatten the arrays before concatenation. >> This has been in NumPy since 1.0 and should not be changed without >> deprecation warnings which I am -0 on. >> >> Now, it is true that the C-API could have been written differently (I think >> this is what Mark was trying to encourage) so that there are two C-API >> functions and they are dispatched separately from the array_concatenate >> method depending on whether or not a None is passed in. But, the behavior >> is documented and has been for a long time. >> >> Reference PyArray_AxisConverter (which turns a "None" Python argument into >> an axis=MAX_DIMS). This is consistent behavior throughout the C-API. > > How about something like: > > #define NPY_NONE_AXIS NPY_MAXDIMS > > to make it clearer what is intended?
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