[Numpy-discussion] Fancy index assign ignores extra assignees

[Andreas Klöckner]

Hi all,

Is this supposed to be like that, i.e. is the fancy __setitem__ supposed to 
not complain about unused assignees?

>>> v = zeros((10,))
>>> z = [1,2,5]
>>> v[z] = [1,2,4,5]
>>> v
array([ 0.,  1.,  2.,  0.,  0.,  4.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.])

Contrast with:

>>> v[1:3] = [1,2,3,4]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: shape mismatch: objects cannot be broadcast to a single shape

Andreas
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