TypeError: only length-1 arrays can be converted to Python scalars.

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Feb 28 15:05:07 EST 2008


nure123 at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Could anybody tell me what is the problem with the following sequence
> with which I always get the above error message. I use Numeric and
> Python 2.4
> 
> x=array([1,2,3,4])
> y=exp(x)

The meaning of the error message is fairly obvious - exp() can't operate 
on arrays. I presume Numeric has its own exp(), and that you need to use 
that instead.

regards
  Steve
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