Actually, if I look here: http://docs.scipy.org/numpy/docs/numpy.core.fromnumeric.put/ The text that appears in by browser is: *put(a, ind, v, mode='raise')* Changes specific elements of one array by replacing from another array. The indexing works on the flattened target array, puthttp://docs.scipy.org/numpy/docs/numpy.core.fromnumeric.put/#putis roughly equivalent to: for i, val in zip(ind, v): x.flat[i] = val Am I missing something obvious???? cheers, William On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Joe Harrington wrote:

william ratcliff writes:

...

Hi! I'd like to suggest a patch for: numpy http://docs.scipy.org/numpy/docs/numpy/.core< http://docs.scipy.org/numpy/docs/numpy.core/> .fromnumeric <http://docs.scipy.org/numpy/docs/numpy.core.fromnumeric/ .put The docstring contains:

...

for i, val in zip(ind,v): x.flat[i]=val

...

It should be:

...

for i, val in zip(ind,v): a.flat[i]=val

Thanks!

It appears you are basing your patch on a numpy release rather than the wiki you have actually linked to, as this problem was fixed on 2009-03-16 by Ralf Gommers.

...

This would be more consistent with the rest of the docstring. For the future, is there an easy way for us to patch docstrings?

Sure! Follow the instructions on docs.scipy.org/numpy/ and make yourself a doc wiki account. Post the account name to the scipy-dev mailing list and ask to be made an editor. Then please edit! But, please be careful that you develop any changes based on the current docstrings and not something from a release. Because the releases are snapshots of a fast-moving project, they are often out of date (In fact, I tell my students to use the doc wiki as their best source of docs, and to ignore help()).

Thanks again,

--jh-- _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion