On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Ian Henriksen < insertinterestingnameh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:53 PM <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Ian Henriksen < >> insertinterestingnameh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 12:31 PM <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> write unit tests with non square 2d arrays and the exception / test >>>> error shows up fast. >>>> >>>> Josef >>>> >>>> >>> Absolutely, but good programming practices don't totally obviate helpful >>> error >>> messages. >>> >> >> The current behavior is perfectly well defined, and I don't want a lot of >> warnings showing up because .T works suddenly only for ndim != 1. >> I make lots of mistakes during programming. But shape mismatch are >> usually very fast to catch. >> >> If you want safe programming, then force everyone to use only 2-D like in >> matlab. It would have prevented me from making many mistakes. >> >> >>> np.array(1).T >> array(1) >> >> another noop. Why doesn't it convert it to 2d? >> >> Josef >> >> > I think we've misunderstood each other. Sorry if I was unclear. As I've > understood the discussion thus far, "raising an error" refers to raising > an error when > a 1D array is passed used with the syntax a.T2 (for swapping the last two > dimensions?). As far as whether or not a.T should raise an error for 1D > arrays, that > ship has definitely already sailed. I'm making the case that there's value > in having > an abbreviated syntax that helps prevent errors from accidentally using a > 1D array, > not that we should change the existing semantics. > Sorry, I misunderstood. I'm not sure which case CHB initially meant. Josef > > Cheers, > > -Ian > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > >
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