On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:24 AM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Jim Vickroy <jim.vick...@noaa.gov> wrote: >>> >>> On 1/16/2013 11:41 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >>> >>> On 16 Jan 2013 17:54, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> a = np.random.random_integers(0, 5, size=5) >>> > >>> b = a.sort() >>> > >>> b >>> > >>> a >>> > array([0, 1, 2, 5, 5]) >>> > >>> > >>> b = np.random.shuffle(a) >>> > >>> b >>> > >>> b = np.random.permutation(a) >>> > >>> b >>> > array([0, 5, 5, 2, 1]) >>> > >>> > How do I remember if shuffle shuffles or permutes ? >>> > >>> > Do we have a list of functions that are inplace? >>> >>> I rather like the convention used elsewhere in Python of naming in-place >>> operations with present tense imperative verbs, and out-of-place operations >>> with past participles. So you have sort/sorted, reverse/reversed, etc. >>> >>> Here this would suggest we name these two operations as either shuffle() >>> and shuffled(), or permute() and permuted(). >>> >>> >>> I like this (tense) suggestion. It seems easy to remember. --jv >>> >>> >> >> And another score for functions as verbs! > > I don't thing the filled we discuss here is an action. > > The current ``fill`` is an inplace operation, operating on an existing array. > ``filled`` would be the analog that returns a copy. > > However ``filled`` here is creating an object > > I still think ``array_filled`` is the most precise > > '''Create an array and initialize it with the ``value``, returning the array > ''' > > > my 2.5c > > Josef
Sorry, completely out of context. I shouldn't write emails, when I'm running in and out the office. Josef > >> >> :-P >> >> Ben Root >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org >> http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion