On Feb 12, 2008 6:33 AM, Joris De Ridder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12 Feb 2008, at 12:31, Matthew Brett wrote: > > > def median(a, axis=0, out=None) > > (same signature as max, min etc) > > I would be slightly in favour of this option. > Using the same signature would be convenient in code like > > def myfunc(myarray, somefunc): > > # do stuff > ... > x = somefunc(myarray, axis = 0, out = None) > > # do more stuff > ... > > > where somefunc could be median(), mean(), max(), min(), std() etc. I > once wrote this kind of function to provide (small) image filtering. > If the same signature is used, there is no need to special-case > median(). I realise it's kind of a niche example, though.
I'm happy with that use case. The docstring should mention that out= is not memory-optimized like it is for the others, though. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
