Pierre GM wrote: > All, > > >> I'd like to move forward with it sooner (for 1.0.5) if the API changes >> are not drastic. Although ideally 0 API changes would be desireable, >> I'm not sure if that is feasible. Are put and putmask the only changes >> in the API. What are the rest of them? >> > > These do not seem too bad. > * put, putmask, take should behave like the numpy equivalent. > This does not sound like a problem. Am I missing something? > * fill_value is now a property, not a method. > I can see this is a good choice, but it is a backward compatibility issue that we should document. > * cumsum(cumprod) works as if the _data array was filled with 0 (1). The mask > is preserved, but not updated. (the output of numpy.core.ma has nomask). > I don't understand what you mean here. So, the mask effectively removes those elements from the sum(product) computation? What does it mean that the mask is not updated? > * bool(x) raises a ValueError, as it does for ndarrays. > What does bool(x) raise for numpy.core.ma.
If we can document exactly what the compatibility issues are (and it looks like we are almost there), we should move forward. -Travis _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
