On 29 May 2012, at 15:00, Mark Bakker wrote:
> Why does isscalar('hello') return True?
>
> I thought it would check for a number?
No, it checks for something that is of 'scalar type', which probably can be
translated as 'not equivalent to an array'. Since strings can form numpy
arrays,
I guess the logic behind this is that the string is the atomic block of an
array
of dtype 'S' - for comparison, np.isscalar(['hello']) = False.
I note the fine distinction between np.isscalar( ('hello') ) and np.isscalar(
('hello'), )...
Cheers,
Derek
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