On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Travis Oliphant <tra...@continuum.io> wrote:
> While namespaces are a really good idea, I'm not a big fan of both "module"
> namespaces and underscore namespaces. It seems pretty redundant to me to
> have pad.pad_mean.
>
> On the other hand, one could argue that pad.mean could be confused with
> calculating the mean of a padded array. So, it seems like the function
> names need to be called something more than just "mean, median, etc."
> Something like padwith_mean, padwith_median, etc. actually makes more sense.
> Or pad.with_mean, pad.with_median. The with_ in this case is not really
> a "namespace" it's an indication of functionality.
Perhaps it should be
pad(..., mode="mean")
, mode="" is only a few more characters than _with_, and this would
make it much easier to write functions whose API looks like:
wavelet_decompose(..., pad_mode=....)
Also it would solve the namespace question :-).
-- Nathaniel
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