Hello, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > (but should it really result in an empty tuple? wouldn't None be a bit > more Pythonic?)
I don't think it would. First of all, x[()] already has the desired meaning in numpy. But I think it's the right thing - if you think of what's inside the brackets as a list of subscripts, one for each dimension, which is translated to a call to __getitem__ or __setitem__ with a tuple of objects representing the subscripts, then an empty tuple is what you want to represent no subscripts. Of course, one item without a comma doesn't make a tuple, but I see this as the special case - just like parentheses with any number of commas are interpreted as tuples, except for parentheses with one item without a comma. (By the way, thanks for the tips for posting a PEP - I'll try to do it quickly.) Noam -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
