On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Eli Bressert <ebress...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's a good point regarding the range function names. But, I think > the issue still stands on the readability of the ptp function. > Regarding PEP20 it's stated that "readability counts." > > If you regard what ptp is supposed to replace, array.max() - > array.min(), the aforementioned follows the PEP20 better as it is more > readable. If valuerange() is not an acceptable name, maybe span()?
Sure, it's probably more readable, and that would be the controlling factor if this were a new function. But that's not really the operative question here. Are the gains in readability worth the nontrivial costs of deprecating and removing the old name? I, for one, am generally not in favor of such deprecations. -- Robert Kern _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
