On Thu, Dec 12, 2019, at 15:59, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > But why have the empty index default to () rather than None or 0 or -1 > or slice(None, None, None) or some other value? That's an arbitrary > and not a good one.
My main reason for the suggestion was because that is the index used to access the single data member of zero-dimension arrays in numpy. [Ellipsis does also work, though] _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/GCHTZEYWYGU3NNPR7KS37OSXRJDEGXDV/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
