[Numpy-discussion] Time for beta1 of NumPy 1.0 (original) (raw)

Keith Goodman kwgoodman at gmail.com
Fri Jun 30 13:03:50 EDT 2006

On 6/30/06, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:

Tim Hochberg wrote: > Regarding choice of float or int for default: > > The number one priority for numpy should be to unify the three disparate > Python numeric packages. Whatever choice of defaults facilitates that is > what I support.

+10 > Personally, given no other constraints, I would probably just get rid of > the defaults all together and make the user choose. My preferred solution is to add class methods to the scalar types rather than screw up compatibility. In [1]: float64.ones(10)

I don't think an int will be able to hold the number of votes for float64.

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