On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:03:39 -0700 Tim Hochberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Of these, clip, conjugate and round support an 'out' argument like that > supported by ufunces; byteswap has a boolean argument telling it > whether to perform operations in place; and sort always operates in > place. Noting that the ufunc-like methods (max, argmax, etc) appear to > support the 'out' argument as well although it's not documented for most > of them, it looks to me as if the two odd methods are byteswap and sort. > The method situation could be made more consistent by swapping the > boolean inplace flag in byteswapped with another 'out' argument and also > having sort not operate in place by default, but also supply an out > argument there. Thus: > > b = a.sort() # Returns a copy > a.sort(out=a) # Sorts a in place > a.sort(out=c) # Sorts a into c (probably just equivalent to c = a.sort() > in this case since we don't want to rewrite the sort routines) Ugh. That's completely different semantics from sort() on lists, so I think it would be a source of bugs (at least, it would mean keeping two different ideas of .sort() in my head). -- |>|\/|< /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |David M. Cooke http://arbutus.physics.mcmaster.ca/dmc/ |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
