[Numpy-discussion] basearray / arraykit

[Travis Oliphant]

Tim Hochberg wrote:
>> Is adding basic Numeric-like indexing something you see as useful to 
>> basearray?
>
> Yes! No! Maybe ;-)

Got ya, loud and clear :-)

I understand the confusion. 


I think we should do the following (for release 1.0)


1) Implement a base-array with no getitem method nor setitem method at all

2) Implement a sub-class that supports only creation of data-types 
corresponding to existing Python scalars (Boolean, Long-based integers, 
Double-based floats, complex and object types).  Then, all array 
accesses should return the underlying Python objects. 

This sub-class should also only do view-based indexing (basically it's 
old Numeric behavior inside of NumPy). 


3) Implement the ndarray as a sub-class of #2 that does fancy indexing 
and returns array-scalars


Item 1) should be pushed for inclusion in 2.6  and possibly even 
something like 2)


-Travis