> Le 12/06/2013 16:18, Nathaniel Smith a écrit : >> Now imagine a new version of this page, if we add 'filled'. There will >> be a list at the top with functions named: >> empty >> filled >> ones >> zeros >> It's immediately obvious what all of these things do, and how they >> differ from each other, and in which situation you might want each, >> just from the names, even before you read the one-line synopses. Even >> more so if you know about the existence of np.fill(). The synopses for >> 'ones' and 'zeros' don't even have to change, they already use the >> word 'filled' to describe what they do. It all just works.
On 6/12/2013 10:49 AM, Pierre Haessig wrote: > I find the "docs would look nice and consistent" argument pretty convincing. > +1 for np.filled. In Maple and Mathematica, these are called constant arrays. Thus (?) another possible name is: np.constant Alan Isaac PS http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/ConstantArray.html http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/Maple/view.aspx?path=Student/LinearAlgebra/ConstantMatrix _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
