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authorMatti Picus <matti.picus@gmail.com>2020-01-22 08:07:53 +1100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-01-22 08:07:53 +1100
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Merge pull request #15323 from mattip/nep-0034-2
NEP: document reimplementation of NEP 34
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@@ -81,7 +81,11 @@ Implementation
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The code to be changed is inside ``PyArray_GetArrayParamsFromObject`` and the
-internal ``discover_dimentions`` function. See `PR 14794`_.
+internal ``discover_dimensions`` function. The first implementation in `PR
+14794`_ caused a number of downstream library failures and was reverted before
+the release of 1.18. Subsequently downstream libraries fixed the places they
+were using ragged arrays. The reimplementation became `PR 15119`_ which was
+merged for the 1.19 release.
Backward compatibility
----------------------
@@ -127,6 +131,7 @@ References and Footnotes
.. _`issue 5303`: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/5303
.. _sequences: https://docs.python.org/3.7/glossary.html#term-sequence
.. _`PR 14794`: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14794
+.. _`PR 15119`: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15119
.. _`another library`: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward-array
.. [0] ``np.ndarrays`` are not recursed into, rather their shape is used