On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 7:06 PM, Marten van Kerkwijk < m.h.vankerkw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ralf, > > Maybe as a concrete example of something that has been discussed, for > which your proposed text makes (I think) clear what should or should not be > done: > > Many of us hate that `np.array` (like, sadly, many other numpy parts) > auto-converts anything not obviously array-like to dtype=object, and it has > been suggested we should no longer do this by default [1]. Given your NEP, > I think you would disagree with that path, as it would quite obviously > break user's code (we also get regular issues about object arrays, which > show that they are used a lot in the wild). So, instead I guess one might > go with a route where one could explicitly tell `dtype=object` was not > wanted (say, `dtype="everything-but-object')? > Thanks, good example. "everything-but-object" makes sense to me. I'd indeed argue that changing the current conversion to object dtype behavior would break way too much code. Cheers, Ralf > All the best, > > Marten > > [1] https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/5353 >
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