[Numpy-discussion] reshape docstrings conflicting

Charles R Harris charlesr.harris at gmail.com
Sat Apr 26 14:24:28 EDT 2008


On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The ndarray.reshape docstring claims:
>
>        "Also always returns a view or raises a ValueError if that is
>        impossible."
>
> whereas fromnumeric.reshape claims:
>
>        "This will be a new view object if possible; otherwise, it will
>        be a copy."
>
> while the code paths for both functions are the same.
>
> So, which one of these is correct? Or, does ndarray.reshape always
> return a view? This is not immediately obvious looking at the code...
>
> I'll fix up the docstrings once I know.
>

Hi Pauli,

I noticed that you removed the ReST markup of the tables in sort
documentation. I think you should leave it in.

Chuck
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