[Numpy-discussion] What is an empty matrix ?

[David Cournapeau]

Nils Wagner wrote:
> David Cournapeau wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>     I was wondering what an empty matrix is, and what it is useful for 
>> (by empty matrix, I mean something created by numpy.matrix([])) ? Using 
>> those crash some functions (see for example scipy ticket #381), and I am 
>> not sure how to fix this bug.
>>
>>     David
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> empty(...)
>     empty((d1,...,dn),dtype=float,order='C')
>
>     Return a new array of shape (d1,...,dn) and given type with all its
>     entries uninitialized. This can be faster than zeros.
>
I understand numpy.empty, but this is different: an empty matrix is not 
equivalent at all to empty. What I am talking about is what is the 
nature of something lie numpy.array((1, 0)) ? I am actually wondering 
whether it makes sense at all.

a = numpy.matrix([])
b = a + 1

does not raise any error, but I don't see how this should be considered 
meaningful ?

David