[Numpy-discussion] Change in behavior of np.concatenate for upcoming release

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Han Genuit <hangenuit at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think there is something wrong with the implementation.. I would
> expect each incoming array in PyArray_ConcatenateFlattenedArrays to be
> flattened and the sizes of all of them added into a one-dimensional
> shape. Now the shape is two-dimensional, which does not make sense to
> me. Also the requirement that all sizes must be equal between the
> incoming arrays only makes sense when you want to stack them into a
> two-dimensional array, which makes it unnecessarily complicated. The
> difficulty here is to use PyArray_CopyAsFlat without having to
> transform/copy each incoming array to the priority dtype, because they
> can have different item sizes between them, but other than that it
> should be pretty straightforward, imo.
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Thanks for the feedback. Feeling inadequate to a full understanding of
the code there, I've entered an issue for it:

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/442

Ondrej - would you consider this a blocker for release?

Best,

Matthew