Gael Varoquaux wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 07:23:54PM +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: >> David Warde-Farley wrote: >>> My first >>> instinct would be to look for "logdet", but I would also not expect such >>> a function to return the log determinant *and* the sign of the >>> determinant. > >> What about having logadet for the (common) case where log |A| only is >> needed, and having the more complex function when the sign is needed as >> well ? > > I was more thinking of a 'return_sign=False' keyword argument.
I think the consensus in python community is to actually create two functions when the returned values' kind differ depending on a boolean. cheers, David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
