When using ndarray.squeeze, a view is returned, which means you can do the follow (somewhat-contrived) operation:

>>> def fill_contrived(a):
        a.squeeze()[...] = 2
        return a

>>> fill_contrived(np.array([1]))
array(2)

However, when tried with a masked array, this can fail, breaking liskov subsitution:

>>> fill_contrived(np.ma.array([1], mask=[True]))
MaskError: Cannot alter the masked element.

This fails because squeeze breaks the contract of returning a view, instead deciding sometimes to return masked.

There is a patch that fixes this in gh-9432 - however, by necessity it breaks any existing code that uses m_arr.squeeze() is np.ma.masked.

Is this too breaking a change?

Eric

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