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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Jun 10 12:57:42 CEST 2006

Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

I think the whole discussion about the concept and meaning of zero-dimensional arrays is mostly irrelevant to the original issue. The original issue is a syntax question: should x[()] be written as x[]?

But, at least as presented in the PEP, it's a syntax that was motivated by a perceived need for dealing with 0D arrays. So it seems relevant to ask whether 0D arrays are really needed or not.

Does anyone have any other use case for this syntax?

-- Greg

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