Oh wow, yeah, there are tons of uses: https://github.com/search?q=%22np.iterable%22&ref=simplesearch&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93
Meh, I dunno, maybe we're stuck with it. It's not a major maintenance burden at least. -n On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Stephan Hoyer <sho...@gmail.com> wrote: > We certainly can (and probably should) deprecate this, but we can't remove > it for a very long time. > > np.iterable is used in a lot of third party code. > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz > <jfoxrabinov...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have created a PR to deprecate `np.iterable` >> (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/7202). It is a very old function, >> introduced as a utility in 2005 >> >> (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/commit/052a7b2e3276a303be1083022fc24d43084d2e14), >> and there is no good reason for it to be part of the public API. It is >> used internally 10 times within numpy. I have repaced those usages >> with a private function `np.lib.function_base._iterable` and added a >> `DeprecationWarning` to the public function. >> >> Is there anyone that objects to deprecating this function? >> >> Regards, >> >> -Joseph >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org >> https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
