I believe this was proposed in the past to little enthusiasm, with the response, "you're using a library; learn its functions".
Nevertheless, given the addition of `choices` to the Python random module in 3.6, it would be nice to have the *same name* for parallel functionality in numpy.random. And given the redundancy of numpy.random.sample, it would be nice to deprecate it with the intent to reintroduce the name later, better aligned with Python's usage. Obviously numpy.random.choice exists for both cases, so this comment is not about functionality. And I accept that some will think it is not about anything. Perhaps it might be at least seen as being about this: using the same function (`choice`) with a boolean argument (`replace`) to switch between sampling strategies at least appears to violate the proposal floated at times on this list that called for two separate functions in apparently similar cases. (I am not at all trying to claim that the argument against flag parameters is definitive; I'm just mentioning that this viewpoint has already been promulgated on this list.) Cheers, Alan Isaac _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
