Concerning the name setmember1d_nu, I personally find it quite verbose and not the name I would expect as a non-insider coming to numpy and not knowing all the names of the more special hidden-away functions and not being a python-wiz either.
I think ain(a,b) would be the name I had expected as an array equivalent of "a in b" (just as arange is the array version of range) or I would had anticipated that an ndarray object would have an "in(b)" or "in_iterable(b)" method, such that you could do a.in(b) which would return a boolean array of the same shape as a with elements true if the equivalent a members were members in the iterable b. When I had a problem where I needed this function, I could not find anything near that, and after looking around and also asking here I got some hints to use the ....1d functions, which gave me the idea to implement the few-line, very simple proposal for "a in b", which is now the proposal under review as the new function setmember1d_nu(a,b). Whereas I see this function name is in line with the existing functions, I really think the names are non-intuitive. I would therefore propose that it was also aliased to a more intuitive name such as ain(a,b) or perhaps better a.in(b) Again, I am probably missing some important points here as a non-experienced Python programmer and numpy user, I am just trying to give some input from the beginners point-of-view, if that can be of any help. Thank you, Kim _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
