[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Re: take() again

[Konrad Hinsen]

Carlos Fonseca wrote:
> 
> I am not familiar with J, but from what I've read in this list, it would
> seem to have very complete multidimensional array handling. Why would
> "full" functionality not be realistic? Too complex, perhaps?

The implementation might take so long that we'll never get to beta
stage.
I don't see any problems in principle.

> One could always write take(a,[indices]) to get the current behaviour with
> axis=2, if indices is 1d. More generally, one could write
> 
> take( a[(ni-1)*(NewAxis,)],indices[(Ellipses,)+ax*(NewAxis,)+(All,)] )

Would you really like to write that? Or read it?

> The above may not look nice, but it would work for *all* cases, and the
> default values should cover *most* cases. Currently, take()'s

For any reasonably frequent expression there should be a readable
form. This doesn't have to be the default, but what you have written
above doesn't qualify as Python code in my eyes ;-)

Konrad.
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