It is an advertised difference between MA and Numeric that index operations return copies, not references. -----Original Message----- From: numpy-discussion-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:numpy-discussion-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Joe Van Andel Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 3:42 PM To: numpy-discussion Subject: [Numpy-discussion] MA : assignment to slices doesn't work like Numeric. I retrieved the latest MA from CVS. I've noticed that assigning to a slice doesn't work the same as Numeric. Here's a simple test program: -------------------------------- from MA import * #from Numeric import * numBeams,numGates = (5,4) result = ones((numBeams, numGates),'f') * -327.68 print 'result = ', result t1 = ones((numGates,),'f') t2 = 2* ones((numGates,),'f') result[0] = t1 result[1][:] = t2 print 'result = ', result ----------------------------------------- Output using 'MA': result = [[-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,] [-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,] [-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,] [-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,] [-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,]] result = [[ 1. , 1. , 1. , 1. ,] [-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,] [-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,] [-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,] [-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,-327.68,]] However, if I use Numeric, rather than MA, I get: result = [[-327.68 -327.68 -327.68 -327.68] [-327.68 -327.68 -327.68 -327.68] [-327.68 -327.68 -327.68 -327.68] [-327.68 -327.68 -327.68 -327.68] [-327.68 -327.68 -327.68 -327.68]] result = [[ 1. 1. 1. 1. ] [ 2. 2. 2. 2. ] [-327.68 -327.68 -327.68 -327.68] [-327.68 -327.68 -327.68 -327.68] [-327.68 -327.68 -327.68 -327.68]] So, a[x][:] = my_array doesn't seem to work using 'MA'. -- Joe VanAndel National Center for Atmospheric Research http://www.atd.ucar.edu/~vanandel/ Internet: vanandel@ucar.edu _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion