[SciPy-dev] small bug(s) in scipy.linalg

[Chuck Harris]

What I would like do see is the reduce method take a list of axis
to run over. The n x m L1 matrix norm would then look like
maximum.reduce(a,axis=[-1,-2]). I actually went so far as to start
coding up my own version of Numeric to make this easy, but all that
free time eventually went away. I hope it makes it into Numarray 
(hint,hint).

Chuck 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pearu Peterson [mailto:pearu at cens.ioc.ee]
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 3:28 AM
> To: scipy-dev at scipy.net
> Subject: Re: [SciPy-dev] small bug(s) in scipy.linalg
> 
> 
> 
> On 10 Feb 2003, Alexander Schmolck wrote:
> 
> > I think scipy.linalg.basic has a few issues with 1D vectors 
> vs row and column
> > vectors (respective shapes: (n,), (1,n), (n,1)). It would 
> seem clear to me,
> > for example that `norm` ought to produce exactly the same 
> with a 1D vector as
> > with a row vector or column vector. Currently it doesn't,
> 
> -1 for considering it as a bug.
> 
> For generality, I'd leave to users to decide whether (1,n) or
> (n,1) shaped matrices should regarded as vectors. 
> 
> It is simple to call norm(ravel(x)) (even if x is (n,) shaped).
> However, if norm() would automatically map x -> ravel(x) for one
> row/column matrix x, as suggested, then this would make 
> writing generic
> algorithms harder (check shapes, split program flow, etc).
> 
> How about introducing a convenience function
> 
>   def vnorm(x):
>       return norm(ravel(x))
> 
> ?
> 
> > and the very common case of the 2 norm for a vector is, I think,
> > handled inefficiently.
> 
> +1 for fixing this.
> 
> Pearu
> 
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