On 9 Sep 2013 15:50, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > One list has 6 entries and one has 7, so they can't be aligned into a single > > array. Possibly it would be better to raise an error here instead of > > returning an object array, but that's what's going on. > > It did at some point (and I relied on the exception to catch bugs, > since I'm still using mainly numpy 1.5) > > >>> f1 = [[15.207, 15.266, 15.181, 15.189, 15.215, 15.198], [-45, -57, -62, -70, -72, -73.5, -77]] > >>> np.array(f1) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence. > >>> np.__version__ > '1.5.1' > > now we get object arrays (in scipy.stats, and I didn't know what to do > with them) > > I don't remember any discussion on this.
There may not have been any. Feel free to submit a PR and we can argue about which way is better... (I also prefer the 1.5 approach personally.) -n
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