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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy/lib/arraysetops.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/lib/arraysetops.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/lib/arraysetops.py b/numpy/lib/arraysetops.py index e6ff5bf38..7b103ef3e 100644 --- a/numpy/lib/arraysetops.py +++ b/numpy/lib/arraysetops.py @@ -223,10 +223,12 @@ def unique(ar, return_index=False, return_inverse=False, ret = _unique1d(ar, return_index, return_inverse, return_counts) return _unpack_tuple(ret) - if not (-ar.ndim <= axis < ar.ndim): - raise ValueError('Invalid axis kwarg specified for unique') + try: + ar = np.swapaxes(ar, axis, 0) + except np.AxisError: + # this removes the "axis1" or "axis2" prefix from the error message + raise np.AxisError(axis, ar.ndim) - ar = np.swapaxes(ar, axis, 0) orig_shape, orig_dtype = ar.shape, ar.dtype # Must reshape to a contiguous 2D array for this to work... ar = ar.reshape(orig_shape[0], -1) |