On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Charles G. Waldman <char...@crunch.io> wrote: > > -1 on the 'arr' name. I think if we're going to support this function at all > (which I'm not convinced is a good idea), it should be np.fromsomething like > the other from* functions. > > Maybe frommatlab? > > I think that 'arr' is just too generic and too close to 'array'.
Well, it's definitely not a good idea if we name it something like that :-). The whole motivation is to provide a quick way to type 2d arrays interactively, hence the current name "np.mat". (The fact that it happens to match matlab syntax is a nice bonus, because stealing is always better than inventing when it works.) -- Nathaniel J. Smith Postdoctoral researcher - Informatics - University of Edinburgh http://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
