Re: [Numpy-discussion] asmatrix and asarray exception

[Charles R H. <cha...@gm...>]

On 10/11/06, Keith Goodman <kwg...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On 10/11/06, Keith Goodman <kwg...@gm...> wrote:
> > This works:
> >
> > >> M.asmatrix(['a', 'b', None])
> > matrix([[a, b, None]], dtype=object)
> >
> > But this doesn't:
> >
> > >> M.asmatrix(['a', 'b', None, 'c'])
> > TypeError: expected a readable buffer object
> >


As a side observation, I note that the 'None' is also non-printing:

>>> a = asarray(['a', 'b', None, 'c'], dtype=object)
>>> a[2]
>>> str(a[2])
'None'

I wonder if this should be changed?

Chuck