[Numpy-discussion] ANN: Numpy 1.8.0 beta 1 release

[Sebastian Berg]

On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 22:08 -0700, Christoph Gohlke wrote:
> On 9/1/2013 9:54 AM, Charles R Harris wrote:

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> 
> Hello,
> 
> is this IndexError intentional in numpy 1.8? Matplotlib 1.3 fails some 
> tests because of this.
> 
> >>> numpy.zeros(1)[[0], :]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> IndexError: too many indices
> 
> With numpy 1.7:
> >>> numpy.zeros(1)[[0], :]
> array([ 0.])
> 

Yes certainly is intentional, since you actually do have too many
indices (you have one dimension, you can only have one index). That it
worked before was a bug. If this is a real problem, maybe we have to
temporarily allow it?

- Sebastian


> Christoph
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