Raymond Hettinger wrote:
On Sep 27, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
..
And I don't like "linspace" either. Something more self
explanatory such as "subdivide" or "interpolate" might
be better.
"Grid" would be nice and short, but may suggest 2-dimentional result.
Whatever word we choose, I think it should be a noun rather than a
verb. ("Comb" (noun) brings up the right image, but is probably too
informal and may be confused with a short for "combination.")
segment? srange?
In the math module, we used an f prefix to differentiate math.fsum() from the
built-in sum() function. That suggests frange() as a possible name for a
variant of range() that creates floats.
That works reasonably well if the default argument pattern is the same as
range: frange(10.0, 20.0, 0.5)
There could be an optional argument to compute the interval: frange(10.0,
20.0, numpoints=20)
And possibly a option to include both endpoints: frange(10.0, 20.0, 0.5, inclusive=True)
I like the numpoints option.
I also like Alexander's idea of making this new range able to work with
other types that support addition/division -- but in that case does the
'f' prefix still make sense?
~Ethan~
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