On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 7:48 PM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > > > However, if you really don't like it, then you can pass a string to aconfsturctor function instead: > > a = arr_from_string(" | 0, 1, 2 || 3, 4, 5 | ") > > yeah, you need to type the extra quotes, but that's not much. > > NOTE: I'm pretty sure numpy has something like this already, for folks that like the MATLAB style -- though I can't find it at the moment.
You are probably thinking of the numpy.matrix constructor: >>> a = np.matrix('1 2; 3 4') >>> print(a) [[1 2] [3 4]] See <https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.matrix.html >.
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