On Jul 21, 2:13 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > bdb112 <boyd.blackw...@gmail.com> writes: > > If I want to add an element at the beginning of an array, it seems > > like I must make a list, insert in place, then make an array again. > > The NumPy ‘ndarray’ type (which is what you get by default from the > ‘array’ factory function) is a far more complex type than (and is not > derived from) the Python list. > > For manipulating them, you'll want to study the NumPy documentation > <URL:http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/arrays.ndarray.html>. >
Yes, I had had a look through that - nothing there that allows writing a succint clear statement (except for my .resize example in the original post), although if efficiency was a concern, then maybe resize and shift right, but that would really obscure the code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
