[Numpy-discussion] Response to PEP suggestions

[Colin J. Williams]

Timo Korvola wrote:

>"Colin J. Williams" <cjw at sympatico.ca> writes:
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>>I was glad to see the proposal to abandon "ravel" ( a hangover from
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 From 05-02-18 16:24 PM

    Yeah, I don't like this anymore either.

    I like X.flatten() better than X.ravel() too.
    -Travis

I suggest that X.flatten would be even better.

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>I thought all APL builtins were denoted by weird special characters
>rather than any readable or pronouncable names.  But I don't see ravel
>actually being abandoned, as the PEP does not discuss functions much.
>One reason for preferring functions to methods and attributes is that
>functions can be made to work with scalars and generic sequences.
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Yes, most of these weird special operators had names, one of these was 
ravel.  Incidentally, 'shape' is also probably inherited from Iverson's APL.

Colin W.