On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Stéfan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za> wrote:

Yes, the ::1 indicates the contiguous dimension, and can only be used
in the first and last places.

Thanks!

I'm not sure I understand your last question correctly,

I want to write a function that can take an array of any dimension. From your response I'm guessing the best way is to write a wrapper in Python and write a Cython function that takes a 1D array and a shape tuple?