Re: [Numpy-discussion] fromnumeric.py internal calls

2016-02-29 Thread G Young
Well I know pandas uses **kwargs (that was the motivation for this PR), but I can certainly have a look at those other ones. I am not too familiar with all of the third party libraries that implement their own array-like classes, so if there any others that come to mind, let me know! Also, could

Re: [Numpy-discussion] fromnumeric.py internal calls

2016-02-28 Thread Stephan Hoyer
I think this is an improvement, but I do wonder if there are libraries out there that use *args instead of **kwargs to handle these extra arguments. Perhaps it's worth testing this change against third party array libraries that implement their own array like classes? Off the top of my head, maybe

Re: [Numpy-discussion] fromnumeric.py internal calls

2016-02-24 Thread G Young
Hello all, I have PR #7325 up that changes the internal calls for functions in *fromnumeric.py* from positional arguments to keyword arguments. I made this change for two reasons: 1) It is consistent with the external function signature 2) The