On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:36:21 +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
>> I do hope, though, that the chosen name is *not*: >> >> - 'interval' >> >> - 'interpolate' or similar > > Would 'subdivide' be acceptable? I'm not great at finding names, and I don't totally love it, but I certainly don't see any problems with it. It is, after all, a subdivision of an interval :) I think 'grid' has been mentioned, and I think it's reasonable, even though most people probably associate the word with a two-dimensional object. But grids can have any desired dimensionality. Now, in fact, numpy has a slightly demented (but extremely useful) ogrid object: In [7]: ogrid[0:10:3] Out[7]: array([0, 3, 6, 9]) In [8]: ogrid[0:10:3j] Out[8]: array([ 0., 5., 10.]) Yup, that's a complex slice :) So if python named the builtin 'grid', I think it would go well with existing numpy habits. Cheers, f _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
