On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Alan G Isaac <alan.is...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For teaching it is certainly nice to have > numpy.polynomial.polynomial.polyfit > providing modern (vs. traditional) parameter order, but > > - it is rather buried > - np.polyfit uses traditional order and has the same name > > I recall there was some controversy (?) over all of this, > but might it not be appropriate to have a keyword argument to > both specifying whether the parameter order is to be modern > or traditional (in both polyfits and polyvals)? > > It would be messy, as there are a lot of functions in polynomial.polynomial that depend on the coefficient order. For the higher level Polynomial class, there is a routine in ipython that will do a pretty display of Polynomial instances which might be useful. Let's see... look here http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/master/examples/notebooks/Custom%20Display%20Logic.ipynband search the page for Polynomial. Chuck
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