A Wednesday 30 January 2008, Timothy Hochberg escrigué: > [...a fine explanation by Anne and Timothy...]
Ok. As it seems that this subject has interest enough, I went ahead and created a small document about views vs copies at: http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/ViewsVsCopies I think it resumes what has been said in this thread, but feel free to update it if you find some inaccuracy or want to complete it more. Although perhaps this is more a FAQ than a recipe, I've added it to the SciPy cookbook because I find it a bit long for a FAQ entry (but I may be wrong). In fact, I feel that the cookbook would need some reorganization, because there are too many different subjects in NumPy/SciPy section of http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook. One first action, IMHO, would be to create separate NumPy/SciPy FAQs and Cookbooks. It's my impression that NumPy is a much more general tool than SciPy with much less requeriments to install, test and use it, and having such a monolithic merge of NumPy and SciPy cookbok could discourage many potential NumPy users that might see NumPy as 'too scientific'. After that, I'd introduce a new subsection called 'Advanced topics' in both NumPy & SciPy FAQ/Cookbook. For example, currently there exists things like "SphericalBesselZeros", "Savitzky Golay filtering of data" in the first section of the cookbook, which is clearly a bit overhelming for the naive user. I'd like to hear some comments about this proposal from the community. At any rate, I've placed the "ViewsVsCopies" entry under a new section that I created in the cookbook, that I called "Advanced topics", but I'm open to suggestions on a better name/place. Cheers, -- >0,0< Francesc Altet http://www.carabos.com/ V V Cárabos Coop. V. Enjoy Data "-" _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
