[Numpy-discussion] numpy 1.9b1 bug in pad function?

[Stefan van der Walt]

On 2014-06-14 14:40:29, Nadav Horesh <nadavh at visionsense.com> wrote:
> This is most likely a documentation error since:
>
> In [7]: np.pad(a)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
> <ipython-input-7-7a0346d77134> in <module>()
> ----> 1 np.pad(a)
>
> TypeError: pad() missing 1 required positional argument: 'pad_width'

That is because the signature is

pad(array, pad_width, mode=None, ...)

But mode *does* need to be specified.  I see why this can be confusing,
though, so perhaps we should simply make mode a positional argument too.

Stéfan