[SciPy-User] Proposal for a new data analysis toolbox

[Keith Goodman]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Alan G Isaac <alan.isaac at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/22/2010 12:47 PM, Keith Goodman wrote:
>> For group_mean I think axis=0 makes more sense. Wes and Josef prefer
>> axis=0, I think. I'm fine with that but would like to hear more
>> opinions.
>
>
> I'd prefer the following.
>
> 1. Whenever the operation can sensibly be applied to a 1d array,
> make the default: axis=None.
>
> 2. If the operation cannot sensibly be applied to a 1d array,
> provide no default.  (I.e., force axis specification.)
>
> In other words: remove guessing by the user.

I like it. Cleaner.