It calls it `initializer` - See https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/functools.html#functools.reduce
Sent from Astro <https://www.helloastro.com> for Mac On Mar 26, 2018 at 09:54, Eric Wieser <wieser.eric+nu...@gmail.com> wrote: It turns out I mispoke - functools.reduce calls the argument `initial` On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 at 00:17 Stephan Hoyer <sho...@gmail.com> wrote: > This looks like a very logical addition to the reduce interface. It has my > support! > > I would have preferred the more descriptive name "initial_value", but > consistency with functools.reduce makes a compelling case for "initializer". > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 1:15 PM Eric Wieser <wieser.eric+nu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> To reiterate my comments in the issue - I'm in favor of this. >> >> It seems seem especially valuable for identity-less functions (`min`, >> `max`, `lcm`), and the argument name is consistent with `functools.reduce`. >> too. >> >> The only argument I can see against merging this would be `kwarg`-creep >> of `reduce`, and I think this has enough use cases to justify that. >> >> I'd like to merge in a few days, if no one else has any opinions. >> >> Eric >> >> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 at 10:13 Hameer Abbasi <einstein.edi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, everyone. I’ve submitted a PR to add a initializer kwarg to >>> ufunc.reduce. This is useful in a few cases, e.g., it allows one to supply >>> a “default” value for identity-less ufunc reductions, and specify an >>> initial value for reductions such as sum (other than zero.) >>> >>> Please feel free to review or leave feedback, (although I think Eric and >>> Marten have picked it apart pretty well). >>> >>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/10635 >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Hameer >>> Sent from Astro <https://www.helloastro.com> for Mac >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >>> NumPy-Discussion@python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> NumPy-Discussion@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
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