Re: [Numpy-discussion] dtype=object behavior change from 0.9.6 to beta 1

[Tom D. <tom...@al...>]

I would think one would want to throw an error when the data has
inconsistent dimensions.  This is what numpy does for other dtypes:



In [10]: numpy.array(([1,2,3], [4,5,6]))
Out[10]:
array([[1, 2, 3],
       [4, 5, 6]])

In [11]: numpy.array(([1,3], [4,5,6]))
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
exceptions.TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent
call last)

TypeError: an integer is required





On 8/31/06, Christopher Barker <Chr...@no...> wrote:
>
> Tom Denniston wrote:
> > So my question is what is the _advantage_ of the new semantics?
>
> what if the list don't have the same length, and therefor can not be
> made into an array, now you get a weird result:
>
> >>>N.array([N.array([1,'A',None],dtype=object),N.array
> ([2,2,'Somestring',5],dtype=object)]).shape
> ()
>
> Now you get an Object scalar.
>
> but:
> >>>N.array([N.array([1,'A',None],dtype=object),N.array
> ([2,2,'Somestring',5],dtype=object)],dtype=object).shape
> (2,)
>
> Now you get a length 2 array, just like before: far more consistent.
> With the old semantics, if you test your code with arrays of different
> lengths, you'll get one thing, but if they then happen to be the same
> length in some production use, the whole thing breaks -- this is a Bad
> Idea.
>
> Object arrays are just plain weird, there is nothing you can do that
> will satisfy every need. I think it's best for the array constructor to
> not try to guess at what the hierarchy of sequences you *meant* to use.
> You can (and probably should) always be explicit with:
>
> >>> A = N.empty((2,), dtype=object)
> >>> A
> array([None, None], dtype=object)
> >>> A[:] = [N.array([1,'A', None],
> dtype=object),N.array([2,2,'Somestring',5],dtype=object)]
> >>> A
> array([[1 A None], [2 2 Somestring 5]], dtype=object)
>
> -Chris
>
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