On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Todd <toddrjen@gmail.com> wrote:

There was no break as large as this. In fact I would say this is even a larger change than any individual change we saw in the python 2 to 3 switch.

Well, the impact of what Python3 did to everyone's string handling code caused so much work that it's close to impossible to top that within numpy I'd say:)

Ralf

The basic mechanics of indexing are just too fundamental and touch on too many things to make this sort of change feasible. It would be better to have a new language, or in this case anew project.