On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > On 2015/04/02 1:14 PM, Hanno Klemm wrote: >> Well, I have written quite a bit of code that relies on fancy >> indexing, and I think the question, if the behaviour of the [] >> operator should be changed has sailed with numpy now at version 1.9. >> Given the amount packages that rely on numpy, changing this >> fundamental behaviour would not be a clever move. > > Are you *positive* that there is no clever way to make a transition? > It's not worth any further thought?
I guess it would be similar to python 3 string versus bytes, but without the overwhelming benefits. I don't think I would be in favor of deprecating fancy indexing even if it were possible. In general, my impression is that if there is a trade-off in numpy between powerful machinery versus easy to learn and teach, then the design philosophy when in favor of power. I think numpy indexing is not too difficult and follows a consistent pattern, and I completely avoid mixing slices and index arrays with ndim > 2. I think it should be DOA, except as a discussion topic for numpy 3000. just my opinion Josef > >> >> If people want to implement orthogonal indexing with another method, >> by all means I might use it at some point in the future. However, >> adding even more complexity to the behaviour of the bracket slicing >> is probably not a good idea. > > I'm not advocating adding even more complexity, I'm trying to think > about ways to make it *less* complex from the typical user's standpoint. > > Eric > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
