On Jan 29, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Joris De Ridder wrote: > This feature request has been repeatedly asked before (e.g. 6 months > ago). The relevant ticket (#558, although this only asks for axis > support) mentions a milestone 1.1. I would like to ask if it could be > moved somewhat higher on the priority list. > > I provided some code for axis support (see ticket), which I largely > copied from the Scipy version back then. I suspect there are many > other people who also implemented their own customized median() > function that has axis support. > >> median moved mediandim0 >> implementation of medianwithaxis or similar, with same call >> signature as mean. >> >> Deprecation warning for use of median, and return of mediandim0 for >> now. Eventual move of median to return medianwithaxis. > > This would confuse people even more, I'm afraid. First they're said > that median() is deprecated, and then later on it becomes the standard > function to use. I would actually prefer a short pain rather than a > long one.
I would certainly like median to take the axis keyword. The axis keyword (and its friends) could be added to 1.0.5 with the default being 1 instead of None, so that it keeps compatibility with the 1.0 API. Then, with 1.1 (an API-breaking release) the default can be changed to None to restore consistency with mean, etc. _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
