[Numpy-discussion] deprecating assignment to ndarray.data

[Jonathan J. Helmus]

On 1/21/2016 8:32 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>
> > Does this apply in any way to the .data attribute in scipy.sparse 
> matrices?
>
> Nope!
>
> -n
>

How about the .data attribute of masked arrays?  I'm guessing there may 
be a decent amount of code that uses array.data to try to duck-type 
ndarrays and MaskedArrays even though there are better ways to do 
this,   for example np.ma.getdata.

Cheers,

     - Jonathan Helmus