> On 03 Apr 2015, at 00:04, Colin J. Williams <c...@ncf.ca> wrote: > > > > On 02-Apr-15 4:35 PM, Eric Firing wrote: >> On 2015/04/02 10:22 AM, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: >>> Swapping the axis when slices are mixed with fancy indexing was a >>> design mistake, IMO. But not fancy indexing itself. >> I'm not saying there should be no fancy indexing capability; I am saying >> that it should be available through a function or method, rather than >> via the square brackets. Square brackets should do things that people >> expect them to do--the most common and easy-to-understand style of indexing. >> >> Eric > +1
Well, I have written quite a bit of code that relies on fancy indexing, and I think the question, if the behaviour of the [] operator should be changed has sailed with numpy now at version 1.9. Given the amount packages that rely on numpy, changing this fundamental behaviour would not be a clever move. If people want to implement orthogonal indexing with another method, by all means I might use it at some point in the future. However, adding even more complexity to the behaviour of the bracket slicing is probably not a good idea. Hanno _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
