On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Alexander Belopolsky <ndar...@mac.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 4:59 PM, alex <argri...@ncsu.edu> wrote: >> >> On the other hand, it really needs to be deprecated. > > > While numpy.matrix may have its problems, a NEP should list a better > rationale than the above to gain acceptance. > > Personally, I decided not to use numpy.matrix in production code about 10 > years ago and never looked back to that decision. I've heard however that > some of the worst inheritance warts have been fixed over the years. I also > resisted introducing inheritance in the implementation of masked arrays, > but I lost that argument. For better or worse, inheritance from ndarray is > here to stay and I would rather see numpy.matrix stay as a test-bed for > fixing inheritance issues rather than see it deprecated and have the same > issues pop up in ma or elsewhere.
btw here's an issue https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/3324 reported on scipy github this morning, involving the interaction between numpy.matrix and masked arrays. Alex _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
