On 29 May 2012, at 15:42, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>> I note the fine distinction between np.isscalar( ('hello') ) and
>> np.isscalar( ('hello'), )...
>
> NB you mean np.isscalar( ('hello',) ), which creates a single-element
> tuple. A trailing comma attached to a value in Python normally creates
> a tuple, but in a function argument list it is treated as separating
> arguments instead, and a trailing empty argument is ignored. The
> parentheses need to be around the comma to hide it from from the
> argument list parsing rule so that the tuple rule can see it.
> (Probably you know this, but for anyone reading the archives later...)
Correct, sorry for the typo!
I was actually puzzled by the habit of what seemed to me automatic unpacking of
the
simple case ('hello') as compared to ('hello', ); I only now looked up that by
the Python
syntax indeed the comma makes the tuple, not the parentheses, the latter only
becoming necessary to protect the comma as you describe above.
Just stumbled on this as in several cases, numpy's rules for creating arrays
from tuples
are slightly different from those for creating arrays from lists.
Cheers,
Derek
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