[Numpy-discussion] Characteristic of a Matrix.

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:18 PM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm afraid that I really don't understand what you're trying to say. Is
> there something that you think numpy should be doing differently?
> >
> >
> > I liked it better when this raised an exception, instead of creating a
> rectangular object array.
>
> Did it really used to raise an exception? Patches accepted :-)  (#5303
> is the relevant bug, like Warren points out. From the discussion there
> it doesn't look like np.array's handling of non-conformable lists has
> any defenders.)
>

Since I'm usually late in updating numpy, I was for a long time very
familiar with the frequent occurence of
`ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence.`

based on this, it was up to numpy 1.5
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/2631#issuecomment-20898809

"ugly but backwards compatible" :)

Josef



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