Is there any reason to introduce this intermediate variable (sz)?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 17/11/2015 21:27, fl wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 4:03:05 PM UTC-5, John Gordon wrote:
>> In <bad9ac66-38aa-4445-a486-6df0e9c7752c at googlegroups.com> fl <@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> correctly. Could you see something useful with variable 'sz'?
>>
>> 'sz' is fewer characters than '(n_iter,)', which may make your code easier
>> to read.
>>
>> The np.zeros() function explicitly accepts an 'int or sequence of ints',
>> so you don't specifically need a sequence.  Is the same true for the
>> 'size' keyword argument of np.random.normal()?
>>
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>
> Hi, I get the following for the third parameter of np.random.normal():
> size : int or tuple of ints, optional
>
> I still don't see the necessity of 'sz'. Thanks,
>

I don't see the necessity for you to bombard this list with question 
after question without bothering to try and provide your own answers 
first.  Did your last skivvy die of overwork?

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Mark Lawrence