Matthew: Thanks for the link to array order discussion. Any more thoughts on Phil's slice() function?
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Gael Varoquaux < gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 08:10:32PM +0100, Robert Kern wrote: > > In my opinion, duplicating functionality under different aliases just > > so people can supposedly find things without reading the documentation > > is not a viable strategy for building out an API. > > +1. It's been my experience over and over again. Richer APIs are actually > less used and known than simple APIs. People don't find their way around > them. > > > My suggestion is to start building out a "How do I ...?" section to > > the User's Guide that answers small questions like this. "How do I > > iterate over an arbitrary axis of an array?" should be sufficiently > > discoverable. > > Indeed, I agree that this is a documentation problem. It does not make it > a simple problem. > > G > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > -- Andrew Giessel, PhD Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School 220 Longwood Ave Boston, MA 02115 ph: 617.432.7971 email: andrew_gies...@hms.harvard.edu
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