[Numpy-discussion] New numpy functions: filled, filled_like

[Pierre Haessig]

Hi,

Le 14/01/2013 00:39, Nathaniel Smith a écrit :
> (The nice thing about np.filled() is that it makes np.zeros() and
> np.ones() feel like clutter, rather than the reverse... not that I'm
> suggesting ever getting rid of them, but it makes the API conceptually
> feel smaller, not larger.)
Coming from the Matlab syntax, I feel that np.zeros and np.ones are in
numpy for Matlab (and maybe others ?) compatibilty and are useful for
that. Now that I've been "enlightened" by Python, I think that those
functions (especially np.ones) are indeed clutter. Therefore I favor the
introduction of these two new functions.

However, I think Eric's remark about masked array API compatibility is
important. I don't know what other names are possible ? np.const ?

Or maybe np.tile is also useful for that same purpose ? In that case
adding a dtype argument to np.tile would be useful.

best,
Pierre

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