On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 8:47 PM Joshua Wilson <josh.craig.wil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Over in the NumPy stubs there's an issue > > https://github.com/numpy/numpy-stubs/issues/41 > > which points out that you can in fact do something like > > ``` > np.float32([1.0, 0.0, 0.0]) > ``` > > to construct an ndarray of float32. It seems to me that though you can > do that, it is not a best practice, and one should instead do > > ``` > np.array([1.0, 0.0, 0.0], dtype=np.float32) > ``` > > Do people agree with that assessment of what the best practice is? If > so, it seems to make the most sense to continue banning constructs > like `np.float32([1.0, 0.0, 0.0])` in the type stubs (as they should > promote making easy-to-understand, scalable NumPy code). > +1 for banning that construct, that's really ugly Cheers, Ralf
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