[SciPy-Dev] scipy.sparse spdiags/dia_matrix additional calling mode

[Jonathan Guyer]

On Oct 6, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Pauli Virtanen wrote:

> I think adding a new function called `diags` could be justified here.
> Numpy already has a function called `diag`, and with the new semantics
> one would have
> 
>    diags([a, b, c], [i, j, k]) == diag(a, i) + diag(b, j) + diag(c, k)
> 
> which hangs together nicely.

+1