On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Daniele Nicolodi <dani...@grinta.net>wrote:
> On 17/01/2013 23:27, Mark Wiebe wrote: > > Would it be too weird or clumsy to extend the empty and empty_like > > functions to do the filling? > > > > np.empty((10, 10), fill=np.nan) > > np.empty_like(my_arr, fill=np.nan) > > Wouldn't it be more natural to extend the ndarray constructor? > > np.ndarray((10, 10), fill=np.nan) > > It looks more natural to me. In this way it is not possible to have the > _like extension, but I don't see it as a major drawback. > > > Cheers, > Daniele > > This isn't a bad idea. Although, I would wager that most people, like myself, use np.array() and np.array_like() instead of np.ndarray(). We should also double-check and see how well that would fit in with the other contructors like masked arrays and matrix objects. Ben Root
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