[Numpy-discussion] Bug (?) converting list to array

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> On 9 Sep 2013 15:50, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>> > One list has 6 entries and one has 7, so they can't be aligned into a
>> > single
>> > array. Possibly it would be better to raise an error here instead of
>> > returning an object array, but that's what's going on.
>>
>> It did at some point (and I relied on the exception to catch bugs,
>> since I'm still using mainly numpy 1.5)
>>
>> >>> f1 = [[15.207, 15.266, 15.181, 15.189, 15.215, 15.198], [-45, -57,
>> >>> -62, -70, -72, -73.5, -77]]
>> >>> np.array(f1)
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence.
>> >>> np.__version__
>> '1.5.1'
>>
>> now we get object arrays (in scipy.stats, and I didn't know what to do
>> with them)
>>
>> I don't remember any discussion on this.
>
> There may not have been any.

Isn't it too late now?

>
> Feel free to submit a PR and we can argue about which way is better... (I
> also prefer the 1.5 approach personally.)

I'm just a balcony muppet (and user)

(and I lost the argument against object arrays in scipy.stats)

Josef

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