pandas is not built on numpy (at least, not anymore), but borrows a lot of inspirations from numpy, and interacts with numpy fairly well. As part of the scipy ecosystem, we all work together to improve interoperability and features.
python's built-in range() function has been there long before numpy came on the scene, so it just made sense to adopt that name since it was the way to generate numbers in python. Ben On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:44 PM C W <tmrs...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I looked up pandas mailing list. Numpy showed up. Maybe is because > Pandas is built on Numpy? My apologies. > > Yes, please do. For people with statistical background, but not CS. It > seems strange the *real* range() function is used to generate natural > numbers. > > Thanks, Ben! > > > > On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:34 PM Benjamin Root <ben.v.r...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> This is the numpy discussion list, not the pandas discussion list. Now, >> for numpy's part, I have had hankerings for a `np.minmax()` ufunc, but >> never enough to get over just calling min and max on my data separately. >> >> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:27 PM C W <tmrs...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I am want to calculate the range of a vector. I saw that someone asked >>> for range() in 2011, but was it ever created? >>> https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/288 >>> >>> Response at the time was to use df.describe(). But df.describe() gives >>> all the 5-number summary statistics, but I DON'T WANT wall the extra stuff >>> I didn't ask for. I was expected a numerical number. I can use that to feed >>> into another function. >>> >>> It exists in Matlab and R, why not in Python? I'm quite frustrated every >>> time I need to calculate the range. >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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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