[Numpy-discussion] Response to PEP suggestions

[Robert Kern]

Fernando Perez wrote:

> I have quite a bit of code doing things like
> 
> try:
>   b=a.flat
> except:
>   b=ravel(a)
> 
> which feels silly.  It would be nice for .flat to be a guaranteed, 
> indexable, no-copy view of the original (even if it's non-contiguous).  
> Granted, the indexing will be costlier for a non-contiguous object, but 
> for the external users this provides a clean API.

Why not just do

   b = ravel(a)

?

That should work in both cases just fine.

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Robert Kern
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