On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:54:22AM -0600, Travis Oliphant wrote: > Pierre GM wrote: > >> How far away is maskedarray from being able to replace numpy.ma? > >> > > > > So far, it does everything that numpy.core.ma does, with I believe more > > flexibility and some additional features (hard/soft mask, easy > > subclassing...). Personally, I stopped using numpy.core.ma completely > > (unless > > for test purposes), and I even managed to convince another user to switch > > to > > this module for his own work (cf the TimeSeries package). > > > > Of course, I expect that there are still some bugs here and there, but I'm > > working on it (when I find them). It's a tad slower than numpy.core.ma, but > > that's a side effect of the flexibility. In the long term, there are some > > plans about porting the module to C, but we're talking in quarters more > > than > > in weeks. > > > > About when it'll be promoted outside the sandbox: well, we need more > > feedback > > from users, as usual. I guess that's the principal stopping block. I'd be > > quite grateful if you could try it and let me know what you think. I grew > > fond of this child born in pain (explaining to my bosses why I spent so > > much > > time on something which is only remotely connected to what I paid to > > do...), > > so I make sure that the baby behaves...
I never received this response from Pierre, even though I have a white-filter on scipy-user ... strange. > I'm inclined to move his masked array over to ma wholesale. The fact > that Pierre sees it as his baby is very important to me. If it doesn't > have significant compatibility issues than I'm all for it. I'm mainly > interested in hearing how people actually using numpy.ma would respond. > > Perhaps we should move it over and start deprecating numpy.ma?? Meaning that there would exist both numpy.ma and numpy.maskedarray for a period? That sounds great to me. I'll happily switch over once I have more confidence in its stability. Glen _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
