On 9-Aug-09, at 12:36 AM, T J wrote:
>>>> z = array([1,2,3,4])
>>>> z[[1]]
> array([1])
>>>> z[(1,)]
> 1
>
> I'm just curious: What is the motivation for this differing behavior?
When you address, i.e. an element in 2D array with a[2,3] you are
actually indexing z with a tuple object (2,3). The 'comma' operator in
Python creates a tuple, irrespective of whether you use parens or not.
e.g.
In [192]: z = {}
In [193]: z[2,3] = 5
In [194]: z
Out[194]: {(2, 3): 5}
In the special case of scalar indices they're treated as if they are
length-1 tuples. The behaviour you're seeing is the same as z[1].
David
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