[Numpy-discussion] BOF notes: Fernando's proposal: NumPy?ndarray with named axes

[Ryan May]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Neil Crighton <neilcrighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoquaux <at> normalesup.org> writes:
>> I do such manipulation all the time, and keeping track of which axis is
>> what is fairly tedious and error prone. It would be much nicer to be able
>> to write:
>>
>>     data.ax_day.mean(axis=0)
>>     data.ax_hour.mean(axis=0)
>>
>
> Thanks, that's a really nice description. Instead of
>
> data.ax_day.mean(axis=0)
>
> I think it would be clearer to do something like
>
> data.mean(axis='day')

IIRC somewhere, at least at the BOF, this exact syntax was intended to
be supported.

Ryan

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Ryan May
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School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma