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.
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