On Fri, 2020-04-24 at 11:10 -0700, Stefan van der Walt wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020, at 08:45, Joshua Wilson wrote: > > But, Stephan pointed out that it might be confusing to users for > > objects to only exist at typing time, so we came around to the > > question of whether people are open to the idea of including the > > type > > aliases in NumPy itself. Ralf's concrete proposal was to make a > > module > > numpy.types (or maybe numpy.typing) to hold the aliases so that > > they > > don't pollute the top-level namespace. The module would initially > > contain the types > > That sounds very sensible. Having types available with NumPy should > also encourage their use, especially if we can add some documentation > around it.
I agree, I might have a small tendency for `numpy.types` if we ever find any usage other than direct typing that may be the better name? Out of curiousity, I guess `ArrayLike` would be an ABC that a downstream project can register with? - Sebastian > > Stéfan > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
