[Numpy-discussion] how to use masked arrays
Eric Firing
efiring at hawaii.edu
Wed May 14 13:19:55 EDT 2008
Pierre GM wrote:
[...]
>
> * If you want to access the underlying data directly, these two commands are
> (almost) equivalent [1]:
>>>> mydata._data
>>>> mydata.view(np.ndarray)
Shouldn't the former be discouraged, on the grounds that a leading
underscore, by Python convention, indicates an attribute that is not
part of the public API, but is instead part of the potentially
changeable implementation?
Eric
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