[SciPy-User] asanyarray behavior with sparse matrices?

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 19:44:04 EST 2010


On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 18:37, Skipper Seabold <jsseabold at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bug or wishful thinking on my part?

Wishful thinking. asanyarray() leaves subclasses of ndarray alone, but
sparse matrices are not subclasses of ndarray. Not being something
that asanyarray() can recognize as a sequence (len(spX) raises a
TypeError), it interprets it as a scalar object.

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Robert Kern

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enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
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