It turns out I mispoke - functools.reduce calls the argument `initial` On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 at 00:17 Stephan Hoyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> This looks like a very logical addition to the reduce interface. It has my > support! > > I would have preferred the more descriptive name "initial_value", but > consistency with functools.reduce makes a compelling case for "initializer". > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 1:15 PM Eric Wieser <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> To reiterate my comments in the issue - I'm in favor of this. >> >> It seems seem especially valuable for identity-less functions (`min`, >> `max`, `lcm`), and the argument name is consistent with `functools.reduce`. >> too. >> >> The only argument I can see against merging this would be `kwarg`-creep >> of `reduce`, and I think this has enough use cases to justify that. >> >> I'd like to merge in a few days, if no one else has any opinions. >> >> Eric >> >> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 at 10:13 Hameer Abbasi <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, everyone. I’ve submitted a PR to add a initializer kwarg to >>> ufunc.reduce. This is useful in a few cases, e.g., it allows one to supply >>> a “default” value for identity-less ufunc reductions, and specify an >>> initial value for reductions such as sum (other than zero.) >>> >>> Please feel free to review or leave feedback, (although I think Eric and >>> Marten have picked it apart pretty well). >>> >>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/10635 >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Hameer >>> Sent from Astro <https://www.helloastro.com> for Mac >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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