On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On 9 Sep 2013 15:50, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >> > One list has 6 entries and one has 7, so they can't be aligned into a >> > single >> > array. Possibly it would be better to raise an error here instead of >> > returning an object array, but that's what's going on. >> >> It did at some point (and I relied on the exception to catch bugs, >> since I'm still using mainly numpy 1.5) >> >> >>> f1 = [[15.207, 15.266, 15.181, 15.189, 15.215, 15.198], [-45, -57, >> >>> -62, -70, -72, -73.5, -77]] >> >>> np.array(f1) >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence. >> >>> np.__version__ >> '1.5.1' >> >> now we get object arrays (in scipy.stats, and I didn't know what to do >> with them) >> >> I don't remember any discussion on this. > > There may not have been any.
Isn't it too late now? > > Feel free to submit a PR and we can argue about which way is better... (I > also prefer the 1.5 approach personally.) I'm just a balcony muppet (and user) (and I lost the argument against object arrays in scipy.stats) Josef > > -n > > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
