On 11/09/2017 05:39 PM, Robert Kern wrote: > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Mark Bakker <mark...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Can anybody explain why vstack is going the way of the dodo? >> Why are stack / concatenate better? What is 'bad' about vstack? > > As far as I can tell, the discussion happened all on Github, not the > mailing list. See here for references: > > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/7253 > > -- > Robert Kern
yes, and in particular this linked comment/PR: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/5605#issuecomment-85180204 Maybe we should reword the vstack docstring so that it doesn't imply that vstack is going away. It should say something weaker like "the functions np.stack, np.concatenate, and np.block are often more general/useful/less confusing alternatives".. or better explain what the problem is. If we limit ourselves to 1d,2d and maybe 3d arrays the vstack behavior doesn't seem all that confusing to me. Allan _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
