There is already a patch to add such a feature to np.diff at https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8206
On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 at 10:47 Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:37 AM Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:30 AM Tyler Reddy <tyler.je.re...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Chuck suggested ( >>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11805#issuecomment-416069436 ) that >>> we may want to consider deprecating np.ediff1d, which is perhaps not much >>> more useful than np.diff, apart from having some arguably strange prepend / >>> append behavior added in. >>> >>> Related discussion on SO: >>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39014324/difference-between-numpy-ediff1d-and-diff >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >> >> Huh. Never knew this existed. I'd say about 50% of the time I use >> np.diff(), I'm doing that prepend/append behavior manually (and less >> readably, possibly inefficiently, but most importantly annoyingly). >> > > I was thinking we might want to add something to `np.diff`, maybe using > `np.pad`. > > Chuck > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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