[Numpy-discussion] Numpy helper function for __getitem__?

[Chris Barker]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Phil Elson <pelson.pub at gmail.com> wrote:

> Biggus also has such a function:
> https://github.com/SciTools/biggus/blob/master/biggus/__init__.py#L2878
> It handles newaxis outside of that function in:
> https://github.com/SciTools/biggus/blob/master/biggus/__init__.py#L537.
>
> Again, it only aims to deal with orthogonal array indexing, not numpy
> fancy indexing.
>
> I'd be surprised if Dask.array didn't have a similar function too.
>

This all indicates to me that this would be a great thing to have as a
stand alone project, or a utility shipped with numpy.

It's been said that you really don't want to subclass ndarray, and should
rather, wrap and delicate (or duck-type) -- maybe this is a good time to
provide utilities to make it easier to do so.

-Chris

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