[Python-Dev] Pre-PEP: Allow Empty Subscript List Without Parentheses (original) (raw)

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Sat Jun 10 08:22:15 CEST 2006

Greg Ewing wrote:

I'm having trouble seeing a real use for a 0D array as something distinct from a scalar, as opposed to them just being an oddity that happens to arise as a side effect of the way Numeric/Numpy are implemented.

This has been rehashed over and over again on numpy-discussion. The upshot is that numpy no longer creates rank-zero arrays unless if the user really asks for one. The remaining use cases are documented here:

http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/ZeroRankArray

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