Pierre GM wrote: > All, > I intend to rename a little-known attribute of MaskedArray, _basedict, to > something more understandable such as _optinfo. This attribute is a > dictionary that comes handy when subclassing MaskedArray or to save > information. > _basedict would still be available for a while as an alias to _optinfo, but > may disappear in the long run. > I intend to put a DeprecationWarning at the beginning of numpy.ma.core. A > side-effect is that this warning is issued each time numpy.ma is imported, > which clutters the output of the tests. > Am I missing something ?
Pierre, The attribute name, _basedict, indicates that it is a private attribute, so I don't see why a deprecation warning is needed at all. Anyone using private attributes should also be reading release notes. I don't like the idea of a warning popping up upon each import of numpy.ma. Eric _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
