[Numpy-discussion] bug in negative stride indexing for empty arrays

[eric <er...@en...>]

Hi,

I just ran across a situation where reversing an empty array using a negative
stride populates it with a new element.  I'm betting this isn't the intended
behavior.

An example code snippet is below.

eric

C:\home\ej\wrk\chaco>python
Python 2.1.3 (#35, Apr  8 2002, 17:47:50) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from Numeric import *
>>> import Numeric
>>> Numeric.__version__
'21.0'
>>> a = array(())
>>> a
zeros((0,), 'l')
>>> len(a)
0
>>> b = a[::-1]
>>> len(b)
1
>>> b
array([0])


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