On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Nathaniel Smith
I'm afraid that I really don't understand what you're trying to say. Is there something that you think numpy should be doing differently?
I liked it better when this raised an exception, instead of creating a rectangular object array. Josef
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Colin J. Williams
wrote: One of the essential characteristics of a matrix is that it be rectangular.
This is neither spelt out or checked currently.
The Doc description refers to a class:
- *class *numpy.matrix[source] http://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/v1.9.1/numpy/matrixlib/defmatrix.py#L206
Returns a matrix from an array-like object, or from a string of data. A matrix is a specialized 2-D array that retains its 2-D nature through operations. It has certain special operators, such as * (matrix multiplication) and ** (matrix power).
This illustrates a failure, which is reported later in the calculation:
A2= np.matrix([[1, 2, -2], [-3, -1, 4], [4, 2 -6]])
Here 2 - 6 is treated as an expression.
Wikipedia offers:
In mathematics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics, a *matrix* (plural *matrices*) is a rectangular http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectangle *array http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/array*[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_%28mathematics%29#cite_note-1 of numbers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number, symbols http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_%28formal%29, or expressions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_%28mathematics%29, arranged in *rows http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/row* and *columns http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/column*.[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_%28mathematics%29#cite_note-2[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_%28mathematics%29#cite_note-3 The individual items in a matrix are called its *elements* or *entries*. An example of a matrix with 2 rows and 3 columns is [image: \begin{bmatrix}1 & 9 & -13 \\20 & 5 & -6 \end{bmatrix}.]In the Numpy context, the symbols or expressions need to be evaluable.
Colin W.
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