[SciPy-user] index arrangement standard

[dmitrey]

BTW I think it would be nice to have possibility to set

ones(2,3) (=ones([2,3]))
zeros(2,3),
array(2,3,4,5) etc
However, this topic is better for numpy, not scipy mailing lists
Regards, D.

Trevis Crane wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> As I understand it, an m x n array has m rows, and n columns. So that
>
> ones([2,3])
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> results in an array of ones that has two rows and three columns.
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> Why, when we want to add a third dimension, does that index go first? 
> That is,
>
> ones([2,3,4])
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> doesn’t give me 2 rows, 3 columns and 4 pages (what is the right word 
> for this?). Instead, I get 2 pages with 3 rows and 4 columns each. For 
> me this seems counterintuitive, but obviously it was designed like 
> this for a reason – what’s that reason?
>
> just curious,
>
> trevis
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