[Numpy-discussion] possible enhancement to getitem?

[Jonathan T. Niehof]

On 06/07/2012 12:55 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> In [3]: u = np.arange(10)
>
> In [4]: u
> Out[4]: array([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9])
>
> In [5]: u[-2:]
> Out[5]: array([8, 9])
>
> In [6]: u[-2:2]
> Out[6]: array([], dtype=int64)
>
> I would argue for consistency it would be desirable for this to return
>
> [8, 9, 0, 1]

Should u[8:2] also return [8, 9, 0, 1], for consistency? That would be 
the concatenation of u[8:] and u[:2], which seems to be your argument.

I concur with Alan that a numpy array should, to the extent possible, 
remain a sequence type. It's a pretty good duck without a peacock tail ;)

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