On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Ralf Gommers
<ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 2011/12/25 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jord...@octave.org>
>>
>> I have been instructed to bring this issue to the mailing list:
>>
>> http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1994
>>
> The issue is this corner case:
>
>>>> idx = []
>>>> x = np.array([])
>>>> x[idx] #works
> array([], dtype=float64)
>>>> x[:, idx] #works
> array([], dtype=float64)
>
>>>> x = np.ones((5,0))
>>>> x[idx] #works
> array([], shape=(0, 0), dtype=float64)
>>>> x[:, idx] #doesn't work
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<ipython-input-27-7038691cb565>", line 1, in <module>
> x[:, idx] #doesn't work
> IndexError: invalid index
>
>
> This is obviously inconsistent, but I think just fixing this one case is not
> enough; unexpected behavior with empty inputs/indexes keeps coming up. Do we
> need a clear set of rules that all functions follow and tests to ensure
> these rules are actually followed, or not?
this works
>>> xx = np.arange(12).reshape(3,4)
>>> xx
array([[ 0, 1, 2, 3],
[ 4, 5, 6, 7],
[ 8, 9, 10, 11]])
>>> x = xx[:,xx[:,-1]<3]
>>> x
array([], shape=(3, 0), dtype=int32)
>>> x<0
array([], shape=(3, 0), dtype=bool)
>>> x[x<0]
array([], dtype=int32)
>>> x[:,x<0]
array([], dtype=int32)
>>> x.ndim
2
I have a hard time thinking through empty 2-dim arrays, and don't know
what rules should apply.
However, in my code I might want to catch these cases rather early
than late and then having to work my way backwards to find out where
the content disappeared.
my 2c
Josef
>
> Ralf
>
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