Travis Oliphant wrote:
2) Multidimensional array indexing.
Sometimes it is useful to select out of an array some elements based on it's linear (flattened) index in the array. MATLAB, for example, will allow you to take a three-dimensional array and index it with a single integer based on it's Fortran-order: x(1,1,1), x(2,1,1), ...
What I'm proposing would have X[K] essentially equivalent to X.flat[K].
Maybe I'm missing something, but in Numeric and Numarray right now
from Numeric import * a = reshape(arange(9),(3,3)) print a [[0 1 2] [3 4 5] [6 7 8]] a[1] array([3, 4, 5]) a.flat[1] 1
so a[K] and a.flat[K] are very different things for multidimensional arrays. I think it would be a bad idea to change this now - it would certainly break a lot of my code. Or are you only talking about the case when K is a rank-1 index array and not a scalar? -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1 Email : Jeffrey.S.Whitaker@noaa.gov 325 Broadway Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Web : http://tinyurl.com/5telg