[Numpy-discussion] Google Season of Docs Ideas

2020-04-20 Thread Melissa Mendonça
Hello all, As some of you may know, we are aiming to participate in the Google Season of Docs program [1] again this year. The deadline for applications from open source organizations is May 4, so I've started on a proposal (heavily based on last year's version) here: https://github.com/numpy/num

[Numpy-discussion] NEP 41: Is there still need to discuss DTypes vs. Scalars (or DType classes)?

2020-04-20 Thread Sebastian Berg
Hi all, the week has passed, and it has been discussed quite a bit longer, so I assume that NEP 41 can effectively be accepted. Even then, I will bring up one point again. I hope that if there is still need for discussion, it will hopefully happen in a timely manner, so that, I can go ahead with

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NEP 41: Is there still need to discuss DTypes vs. Scalars (or DType classes)?

2020-04-20 Thread Matti Picus
On 20/4/20 11:37 pm, Sebastian Berg wrote: Hi all, ... In my proposal the DType class (i.e. `type(np.dtype("float64")`), is the core concept and different for every scalar type. It holds all the information on how to deal with array elements. This is some duplication of scalar types and it me