[Numpy-discussion] Would like to patch docstring for numpy.random.normal

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Tue Mar 10 14:22:36 EDT 2015


On Mar 10, 2015 11:15 AM, "Paul Hobson" <pmhobson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Charles R Harris <
charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Paul Hobson <pmhobson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I feel your pain. Making it worse, numpy.random.lognormal takes "mean"
and "sigma" as input. If there's ever a backwards incompatible release, I
hope these things will be cleared up.
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>> There is a numpy 2.0 milestone ;)
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> Is it worth submitting PRs against the existing 2.X branch or is that so
far away that the can should be kicked down the road?

Not sure what you mean by "the existing 2.X branch" (does such a thing
exist somewhere?), but yeah, don't submit PRs like that. Best case they'd
bit rot before we ever get around to 2.0, worst case 2.0 may never happen.
(What, you liked python 2 -> 3 so much you want to go through that again?)
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