On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 4:15 PM Hameer Abbasi <einstein.edi...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Friday, Oct 19, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Stephan Hoyer <sho...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> I don't think it makes much sense to change NumPy's existing usage of
> asarray() to asanyarray() unless we add subok=True arguments (which default
> to False). But this ends up cluttering NumPy's public API, which is also
> undesirable.
>
> Agreed so far.
>

I'm not sure I agree. "subok" is very unpythonic; the average numpy library
function should work fine for a well-behaved subclass (i.e. most things out
there except np.matrix).

>
> The preferred way to override NumPy functions going forward should be
> __array_function__.
>
>
> I think we should “soft support” i.e. allow but consider unsupported, the
> case where one of NumPy’s functions is implemented in terms of others and
> “passing through” an array results in the correct behaviour for that array.
>

I don't think we have or want such a concept as "soft support". We intend
to not break anything that now has asanyarray, i.e. it's supported and
ideally we have regression tests for all such functions. For anything we
transition over from asarray to asanyarray, PRs should come with new tests.


>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 8:13 AM Marten van Kerkwijk <
> m.h.vankerkw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There are exceptions for `matrix` in quite a few places, and there now is
>> warning for `maxtrix` - it might not be bad to use `asanyarray` and add an
>> exception for `maxtrix`. Indeed, I quite like the suggestion by Eric Wieser
>> to just add the exception to `asanyarray` itself - that way when matrix is
>> truly deprecated, it will be a very easy change.
>>
> I don't quite understand this. Adding exceptions is not deprecation - we
then may as well just rip np.matrix out straight away.

What I suggested in the call about this issue is that it's not very
effective to treat functions like percentile/quantile one by one without an
overarching strategy. A way forward could be for someone to write an
overview of which sets of functions now have asanyarray (and actually work
with subclasses), which ones we can and want to change now, and which ones
we can and want to change after np.matrix is gone. Also, some guidelines
for new functions that we add to numpy would be handy. I suspect we've been
adding new functions that use asarray rather than asanyarray, which is
probably undesired.

Cheers,
Ralf



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