[Numpy-discussion] new scipyCore features in numarray - indexing...

[Todd Miller]

Sebastian Haase wrote:

>(this was posted to SciPy on 2005-11-16 16:37 - maybe I got lost ;-)
>Todd,
>I'm just thinking of a nice feature that I think is now part of new
> scipyCore: Mixing  index ranges in one axis with index lists in another.
>Example:
>   I have index 4,7,9 that I'm intrested in: use a[ [4,7,9] ]
>   If I want all section I obviously just say a[ : ]
>But what do I do in the 2d case where I want 4,7,9 in one axis and all in the
>other ?  I understood that the new scipyCore allows a[:, [4,7,9]]
>whereas numarray gives an error !?
>  
>
Yep,  my impression is that the indexing in scipy newcore is an 
improvement over numarray which was itself a functional improvement over 
Numeric.    I'm pretty sure fixing this in numarray is not a simple hack 
so, for now anyway,  it won't get fixed.  I wish I had better news...

Regards,
Todd

>Thanks,
>Sebastian Haase
>
>On Friday 04 November 2005 14:57, Todd Miller wrote:
>  
>
>>Sebastian Haase wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Also I always need to thank Todd et al. for numarray which we are using
>>>for about 4 years now.
>>>      
>>>
>>I'm glad you found numarray useful.
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I was following - I thought - all the postings here, but I don't remember
>>>when and what the reason was when a.type() changed  to a.dtype (also
>>>there is a "dtypecode" somewhere !?). Any reference or explanation would
>>>be great. I have to say that the (old) parenthesis where always quite
>>>"annoying" ! ;-)
>>>
>>>Question: does the way allow assignments like "a.dtype = Float32".
>>>What does it do ? If not, is it raising an error (I had 2 different people
>>>yesterday who tried to assign to a.type here in our lab ...)
>>>
>>>Also is this now completely supported/tested and suggested for numarray ?
>>>(For the time numarray is still separate)
>>>      
>>>
>>I'm adding support for some of newcore's new interface features out of
>>desire to make it easier to migrate.  Our intent is to make it possible
>>to write newcore code and run it on numarray now as newcore matures.
>>Not every newcore feature is going to be supported,  but we'll make an
>>effort to support those which are easy to implement.   Let me know is
>>there's some newcore idiom you want to use that numarray doesn't have yet.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Todd
>>    
>>
>
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