On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 15:32, David Huard <david.hu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Nils and Joseph, > > Thanks for the bug report, this is now fixed in SVN (r8672). > > While we're at it, can we change the name of the argument? "normed" > has caused so much confusion over the years. We could deprecate > normed=True in favor of pdf=True or density=True. > > We may even want to consider leaving the normed=True implementation > alone with just the deprecation warning. While the behavior is > incorrect, it is also very long-standing and something that people > might simply have coded around. Changing the behavior without > deprecation might break their workarounds silently. I admit it's a bit > of a stretch, but conservativeness and coupled with the opportunity to > make a desirable name change make this more attractive. > > I think that's a good approach. One possibility is do have density override normed, something like if density is not None: flowers and unicorns else: same old same old Chuck
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