[Numpy-discussion] fromiter

[Robert Kern]

David M. Cooke wrote:

> Can this be integrated into array() so that array(iterable, dtype=dtype)
> does the expected thing?

That was rejected early on because array() is so incredibly overloaded as it is.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/5756

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Robert Kern

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