Re: RFC 90 (v3) Arrays: Builtins: merge() and demerge()

[Jeremy Howard]

Christian Soeller wrote:
> Jeremy Howard wrote:
>
> > However I like the Numeric Python reshape() semantics better:
> >
> >   http://starship.python.net/~da/numtut/array.html
>
> Is that in any significant way different from PDL's reshape?
>
>   http://pdl.sourceforge.net/PDLdocs/Core.html#reshape
>
The Numeric Python version lets you use '-1' for any one dimension, which
sets the size of that dimension to make the array fill the new shape as
completely as possible.