[SciPy-dev] Fancy indexing curiosity

[Pearu Peterson]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Arnd Baecker wrote:

> In [7]: import numpy
> In [8]: a1=numpy.array([], dtype=numpy.complex128)
> In [9]: a2=numpy.array([], dtype=numpy.complex128)
> In [10]: numpy.dot(a1,a2)
> Out[10]: (2.6815615888703731e+154+2.6815615859888243e+154j)

I have commited a patch to numpy svn so that

   numpy.core.multiarray.dot([],[]) -> 0

Note that currently

    numpy.core.multiarray.dot([],2) -> []

for instance. Is this desired behaviour?

Pearu