How is this different from using np.newaxis and broadcasting? Or am I
misunderstanding this?

Ben Root

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:13 PM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
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>> On Nov 24, 2015 11:57 AM, "John Kirkham" <jakirk...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Takes an array and tacks on arbitrary dimensions on either side, which
>> is returned as a view always. Here are the relevant features:
>> >
>> > * Creates a view of the array that has the dimensions before and after
>> tacked on to it.
>> > * Takes the before and after arguments independent of each other and
>> the current shape.
>> > * Allows for read and write access to the underlying array.
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>> Can you expand this with some discussion of why you want this function,
>> and why you chose these specific features? (E.g. as mentioned in the PR
>> comments already, the reason broadcast_to returns a read-only array is that
>> it was decided that this was less confusing for users, not because of any
>> technical issue.)
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> Why is this a stride_trick?
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> I thought this looks similar to expand_dims and could maybe be implemented
> with some extra options there.
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> Josef
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>> -n
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