On 16-Jul-09, at 2:43 PM, Phillip M. Feldman wrote: > numpy.array understands > > V= array([[1,2,3,4],[4,3,2,1]]) > > but not > > V= array([1,2,3,4],[4,3,2,1]) > > It would be more convenient if it could handle either form. That may be so, but the second argument is dtype. This would break that. David