I greatly prefer "np.mat" to "np.arr" for this, FWIW
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Charles G. Waldman <[email protected]> > 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 > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
