BUG: edgeitems kwarg is ignored

The global settings were being used instead

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/core/arrayprint.py b/numpy/core/arrayprint.py
index 93a659616..7b2b37694 100644
--- a/numpy/core/arrayprint.py
+++ b/numpy/core/arrayprint.py
@@ -273,25 +273,24 @@ def get_printoptions():
     return _format_options.copy()
 
 
-def _leading_trailing(a, index=()):
+def _leading_trailing(a, edgeitems, index=()):
     """
     Keep only the N-D corners (leading and trailing edges) of an array.
 
     Should be passed a base-class ndarray, since it makes no guarantees about
     preserving subclasses.
     """
-    edgeitems =  _format_options['edgeitems']
     axis = len(index)
     if axis == a.ndim:
         return a[index]
 
     if a.shape[axis] > 2*edgeitems:
         return concatenate((
-            _leading_trailing(a, index + np.index_exp[ :edgeitems]),
-            _leading_trailing(a, index + np.index_exp[-edgeitems:])
+            _leading_trailing(a, edgeitems, index + np.index_exp[ :edgeitems]),
+            _leading_trailing(a, edgeitems, index + np.index_exp[-edgeitems:])
         ), axis=axis)
     else:
-        return _leading_trailing(a, index + np.index_exp[:])
+        return _leading_trailing(a, edgeitems, index + np.index_exp[:])
 
 
 def _object_format(o):
@@ -437,7 +436,7 @@ def _array2string(a, options, separator=' ', prefix=""):
 
     if a.size > options['threshold']:
         summary_insert = "..."
-        data = _leading_trailing(data)
+        data = _leading_trailing(data, options['edgeitems'])
     else:
         summary_insert = ""
 
diff --git a/numpy/core/tests/test_arrayprint.py b/numpy/core/tests/test_arrayprint.py
index 4d67d6eac..b63957c72 100644
--- a/numpy/core/tests/test_arrayprint.py
+++ b/numpy/core/tests/test_arrayprint.py
@@ -230,6 +230,14 @@ class TestArray2String(object):
         assert_equal(eval(repr(a), vars(np)), a)
         assert_equal(eval(repr(a[0]), vars(np)), a[0])
 
+    def test_edgeitems_kwarg(self):
+        # previously the global print options would be taken over the kwarg
+        arr = np.zeros(3, int)
+        assert_equal(
+            np.array2string(arr, edgeitems=1, threshold=0),
+            "[0 ... 0]"
+        )
+
 
 class TestPrintOptions(object):
     """Test getting and setting global print options."""