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diff --git a/doc/source/reference/arrays.scalars.rst b/doc/source/reference/arrays.scalars.rst index 9c4f05f75..d27d61e2c 100644 --- a/doc/source/reference/arrays.scalars.rst +++ b/doc/source/reference/arrays.scalars.rst @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ Any Python object: .. note:: - The data actually stored in :term:`object arrays <object array>` + The data actually stored in object arrays (*i.e.*, arrays having dtype :class:`object_`) are references to Python objects, not the objects themselves. Hence, object arrays behave more like usual Python :class:`lists <list>`, in the sense @@ -188,8 +188,10 @@ Any Python object: on item access, but instead returns the actual object that the array item refers to. -The following data types are :term:`flexible`. They have no predefined -size: the data they describe can be of different length in different +.. index:: flexible + +The following data types are **flexible**: they have no predefined +size and the data they describe can be of different length in different arrays. (In the character codes ``#`` is an integer denoting how many elements the data type consists of.) |