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diff --git a/doc/source/reference/arrays.scalars.rst b/doc/source/reference/arrays.scalars.rst index 4acaf1b3b..f76087ce2 100644 --- a/doc/source/reference/arrays.scalars.rst +++ b/doc/source/reference/arrays.scalars.rst @@ -248,7 +248,8 @@ Indexing Array scalars can be indexed like 0-dimensional arrays: if *x* is an array scalar, -- ``x[()]`` returns a 0-dimensional :class:`ndarray` +- ``x[()]`` returns a copy of array scalar +- ``x[...]`` returns a 0-dimensional :class:`ndarray` - ``x['field-name']`` returns the array scalar in the field *field-name*. (*x* can have fields, for example, when it corresponds to a structured data type.) @@ -282,10 +283,10 @@ Defining new types ================== There are two ways to effectively define a new array scalar type -(apart from composing structured types :ref:`dtypes <arrays.dtypes>` from -the built-in scalar types): One way is to simply subclass the -:class:`ndarray` and overwrite the methods of interest. This will work to -a degree, but internally certain behaviors are fixed by the data type of -the array. To fully customize the data type of an array you need to -define a new data-type, and register it with NumPy. Such new types can only +(apart from composing structured types :ref:`dtypes <arrays.dtypes>` from +the built-in scalar types): One way is to simply subclass the +:class:`ndarray` and overwrite the methods of interest. This will work to +a degree, but internally certain behaviors are fixed by the data type of +the array. To fully customize the data type of an array you need to +define a new data-type, and register it with NumPy. Such new types can only be defined in C, using the :ref:`NumPy C-API <c-api>`. |