On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:08, Nils Becker <n.bec...@amolf.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that I can index into a dtype when I take an element
> of a rank-1 array but not if I make a rank-0 array directly. This seems
> inconsistent. A bug?
Not a bug. Since there is no axis, you cannot use integers to index
into a rank-0 array. Use an empty tuple instead.
[~]
|1> dt = np.dtype([('x', '<f8'), ('y', '<f8')])
[~]
|2> a_rank_0 = np.zeros((), dtype=dt)
[~]
|3> a_rank_0[()]
(0.0, 0.0)
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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