Greg Ewing wrote: > I'm having trouble seeing a real use for a 0D array as > something distinct from a scalar, as opposed to them > just being an oddity that happens to arise as a side > effect of the way Numeric/Numpy are implemented.
This has been rehashed over and over again on numpy-discussion. The upshot is that numpy no longer creates rank-zero arrays unless if the user really asks for one. The remaining use cases are documented here: http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/ZeroRankArray -- 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 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
