[Numpy-discussion] Is this a bug?

[Robert Kern]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> I vaguely recall this generated an array from all the characters.
>
> In [1]: array('123', dtype='c')
> Out[1]:
> array('1',
>       dtype='|S1')

When was the last time it did otherwise? This behavior is a
consequence of treating strings as scalars rather than containers of
characters. I believe we settled on this behavior before 1.0.

-- 
Robert Kern

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though it had an underlying truth."
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