On Apr 5, 2011, at 11:52 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Skipper Seabold <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Charles R Harris >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Should skiprows be removed? >>> >>> if skiprows: >>> warnings.warn(\ >>> "The use of `skiprows` is deprecated, it will be removed in >>> numpy 2.0.\n" \ >>> "Please use `skip_header` instead.", >>> DeprecationWarning) >>> skip_header = skiprows >>> >>> Its been deprecated since 1.4. Personally, I like skiprows better than >>> skip_header ;) >>> >> >> +1 for skiprows. I always have to look it up. > > To me one is not much better than the other, but -1 for skiprows > because un-deprecating it and deprecating skip_header is inconsistent > and annoying for users.
-1 for skiprows. When I introduced skip_footer, it looked more consistent to have a skip_header and skip_footer than a skiprows and a skip_footer. Now, we could probably find more meaningful names, like, skip_header_rows... OK, just joking. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
