[Numpy-discussion] Numeric.put bug

[Travis Oliphant]

On Friday 05 October 2001 11:10 am, you wrote:
> Has anyone yet noted this?
>
> The following code works in python1.5.2 (Numeric.__version__ == '11').
> However, in python2.0 (with Numeric.__version__ == '17.1.1') and
> python2.1 (with Numeric.__version__ == '20.0.0'), it doesn't work
> correctly.
> coords[3][3] is mis-assigned. It happens at least on SGI and Sun. I've
> not
> seen anything in the change lists for 20.1 or 20.2 about such a bug.
>

I'm not sure why this worked in Numeric version 11,  but it appears you are 
using the put function incorrectly.  The documentation might need to be fixed 
to emphasize that the index list is interpreted as a one-dimensional index 
into a flattened representation of the array.   The put function does the 
equivalent of the operation:

a.flat[n] = v.flat[n]

In other words, if a is a 2-d array, then the index list does NOT represent 
indices into the rows of the array.  It represents indicies into the 
flattened array.

In your example, the function is working correctly.  It is placing a 12 into 
the 3 position in the array (i.e. row 0 column 3) and placing a 13 into the 
15th position in the array (i.e. row 3 column 3).

Like I said, I'm not sure why this worked in Numeric 11 --- it shouldn't have.

-Travis