Re: [Numpy-discussion] fromnumeric.py internal calls

2016-02-28 Thread Stephan Hoyer
I think this is an improvement, but I do wonder if there are libraries out there that use *args instead of **kwargs to handle these extra arguments. Perhaps it's worth testing this change against third party array libraries that implement their own array like classes? Off the top of my head, maybe

Re: [Numpy-discussion] ANN: pandas v0.18.0rc1 - RELEASE CANDIDATE

2016-02-28 Thread Jeff
So you are probably reading sas7bdat, which was put in AFTER 0.18.0rc1 was cut (if you are reading xport format then you are good to go), otherwise you may want to wait a bit for 0.18.0rc2. On Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 1:42:53 PM UTC-5, John E wrote: > > OK, thanks, I got it. Although...

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Generalized flip function

2016-02-28 Thread Stephan Hoyer
I also think this is a good idea -- the generalized flip is much more numpythonic than the specialized 2d versions. On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 11:36 AM Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz < jfoxrabinov...@gmail.com> wrote: > If nothing else, this is a nice complement to the generalized `stack` > function. > >

Re: [Numpy-discussion] ANN: pandas v0.18.0rc1 - RELEASE CANDIDATE

2016-02-28 Thread Jeff
These are pre-releases. In other words, we would want the community to test out before an official release, and see if there are any show stoppers. The docs are setup for the official releases. These are not put into official channels at all (that is the point), e.g. not on PyPi, nor in the