updated getitem to distributed constants for slices, ADVANCED INDEXIN…

…G NOT CORRECTED YET

heat/core/dndarray.py

@@ -782,6 +782,7 @@ def __getitem__(self, key: Union[int, Tuple[int, ...], List[int, ...]]) -> DNDar
         chunk_ends = chunk_starts + counts
         chunk_start = chunk_starts[rank]
         chunk_end = chunk_ends[rank]
+        active_rank = None
 
         if len(key) == 0:  # handle empty list
             # this will return an array of shape (0, ...)
@@ -798,6 +799,8 @@ def __getitem__(self, key: Union[int, Tuple[int, ...], List[int, ...]]) -> DNDar
             and len(key[self.split]) > 1
         ):
             # advanced indexing, elements in the split dimension are adjusted to the local indices
+            # todo: handle the single element return...for loop? need to find which
+            #       process the data is on
             lkey = list(key)
             if isinstance(key[self.split], DNDarray):
                 lkey[self.split] = key[self.split].larray
@@ -849,6 +852,8 @@ def __getitem__(self, key: Union[int, Tuple[int, ...], List[int, ...]]) -> DNDar
             sp_pr = torch.where(key_stop >= chunk_starts)[0]
             sp_pr = sp_pr[-1] if len(sp_pr) > 0 else 0
             actives = list(range(st_pr, sp_pr + 1))
+            if len(actives) == 1:
+                active_rank = actives[0]
             if rank in actives:
                 key_start = 0 if rank != actives[0] else key_start - chunk_starts[rank]
                 key_stop = counts[rank] if rank != actives[-1] else key_stop - chunk_starts[rank]
@@ -895,8 +900,11 @@ def __getitem__(self, key: Union[int, Tuple[int, ...], List[int, ...]]) -> DNDar
                 arr = self.__array[tuple(key)].reshape(tuple(lout))
             else:
                 arr = torch.empty(tuple(lout), dtype=self.larray.dtype, device=self.larray.device)
-            # broadcast result
+
+        if gout_full == (1,) or gout_full == [1]:
+            # broadcast result if the output is a single element (constant)
             arr = self.comm.bcast(arr, root=active_rank)
+            new_split = None
 
         # if 0 in arr.shape:
         #     # no data on process