On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:40 PM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Jean-Baptiste Rudant > <boogalo...@yahoo.fr> wrote: >> Hello, >> I think there's something strange with shape when a slice is given by an >> array. >> import numpy as N >> my_array = N.ones((2, 3, 6)) >> ind = N.arange(4) >> #you hope to find (3, 4) >> print my_array[0, :, ind].shape >> print my_array[0, :, 0:4].shape >> print my_array[0][:, ind].shape >> print my_array[0][:, 0:4].shape >> """ >> (4, 3) >> (3, 4) >> (3, 4) >> (3, 4) >> """ >> Jean-Baptiste Rudant > > there was a long thread on this with the explanation in March, title > "is it a bug?" > The thread is here: http://www.mail-archive.com/numpy-discussion@scipy.org/msg16300.html
It looks to me like violating the principle of "least surprise". My reading of that thread is, that the observed "bug" is mostly a consequence coming from the way fancy indexing is implemented. How about deprecating this kind of index mixing !? Regards, Sebastian Haase _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
