Steven Bethard wrote: > Presumably the numarray code has to do quite a bit of type checking to > perform all these slicings right (and I didn't even show you what > happens when you use another array as an "index"). I'm not necessarily
Yes, I know. I haven't switched to numarray because of the small-array penalty (which I can't pay in my code), but recently T. Oliphant added array-indexing to Numeric in Scipy's port. Very nifty. > saying that all this type checking is a good thing, but because people > will always find new things that they want to index by, adding > __getxxx__ methods for each of the index types is probably not the right > road to go down... Ultimately it's true that since indexing objects for multidimensional arrays will always come in packaged as a tuple, the __getitem__ method will simply have to deal with a fair bit of analysis before getting to the meat of actually returning a result. Anyway, thanks for the discussion, it clarified a few points. Regards, f -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
