Please, consider the following lines, where a tuple is starred while being used to index a NumPy array:

import numpy as np

a = np.array([[1,2],[3,4]])
ind = (1, 1)
print(a[*ind])

Python 3.10.7 with NumPy 1.23.2 throws an error (syntax). On the other hand, Python 3.11.2 with NumPy 1.24.2 prints the number “4”.

What changed?

Thank you.