On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: .. > The audience for numpy is a small minority of Python users, and they tend to > be more sophisticated. I'm sure they can cope with two functions with > different APIs <wink> > > While continuity of API might be a good thing, we shouldn't accept a poor > API just for the sake of continuity. I have some criticisms of the linspace > API.
+1 In addition to Steven's criticisms of numpy.linspace(), I would like a new function to work with types other than float. It certainly makes sense to have range-like functionality for fractions and decimal floats, but also I often find a need to generate a list of equally spaces dates or datetime points. It would be nice if a new function would allow start and stop to be any type that supports subtraction and whose differences support division by numbers. Also, in terms of implementation, I don't think we'll gain anything by copying numpy code because linspace(start, stop, num) is effectively just arange(0, num) * step + start where step is (stop-start)/(num-1). This works because numpy arrays (produced by arange()) support linear algebra and we are not going to copy that. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
