[Numpy-discussion] rand argument question (original) (raw)

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Fri Jun 2 12:16:31 EDT 2006

Sven Schreiber wrote:

Hi all, this may be a stupid question, but why doesn't rand accept a shape tuple as argument? I find the difference between the argument types of rand and (for example) zeros somewhat confusing. (See below for illustration.) Can anybody offer an intuition/explanation?

rand() is a convenience function. It's only purpose is to offer this convenient API. If you want a function that takes tuples, use numpy.random.random().

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