On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 06:17:44PM +0000, James Philbin wrote: > Hi, > > This cannot work, because the inplace operation does not > > take place as a for loop. > Well, this would be fine if I was assigning the values to tempories as > you suggest. However, the operation should be performed inplace and > this is what I don't understand - why is there no for loop? I think > the semantics of these inplace indexed operations is intuitively quite > clear and numpy doesn't follow this intuition. Would there be any > interest in changing this behaviour in numpy?
I think this is technicaly impossible from the way numpy works. This breaks the numpy model that every operation is global on the array. > > This is a FAQ. > Sorry if i'm rehashing old ground, but the closest thing I could find > to a numpy faq is here: http://www.scipy.org/FAQ. There seems to be no > mention of this issue there. Sorry if I came out harsh, I certainly didn't want to implie that you were expecting something wrong, just that this thing was tricking people. Cheers, Gaël _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
