Guido van Rossum wrote:

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Doesn't the current wrapper narrow the acceptable definitions for _ndarray_subscript? The reason I noticed this is that my 2.2.1 code raises an exception:

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import numarray a=numarray.arange(10) a Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/home/jmiller/lib/python2.2/site-packages/numarray/numarray.py", line 622, in __repr__ MAX_LINE_WIDTH, PRECISION, SUPPRESS_SMALL, ', ', 1) File "/home/jmiller/lib/python2.2/site-packages/numarray/arrayprint.py", line 156, in array2string separator, array_output) File "/home/jmiller/lib/python2.2/site-packages/numarray/arrayprint.py", line 112, in _array2string max_str_len = max(len(str(max_reduce(data))), File "/home/jmiller/lib/python2.2/site-packages/numarray/ufunc.py", line 759, in reduce r = self.areduce(inarr, dim, outarr) File "/home/jmiller/lib/python2.2/site-packages/numarray/ufunc.py", line 745, in areduce _outarr1 = self._cumulative("reduce", _inarr, _outarr0) File "/home/jmiller/lib/python2.2/site-packages/numarray/ufunc.py", line 653, in _cumulative toutarr = self._reduce_out(inarr, outarr, outtype) File "/home/jmiller/lib/python2.2/site-packages/numarray/ufunc.py", line 591, in _reduce_out toutarr = inarr[...,0].copy().astype(outtype) TypeError: an integer is required

I guess that means it's going through the *sequence* getitem, not the

Yes.

*mapping* getitem. Have you tried leaving the sequence getitem slot NULL, and doing everything through your mapping getitem slot?

No.

That should work in 2.2.

It does now.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

Thanks! Todd -- Todd Miller jmiller@stsci.edu STSCI / SSG