At 11:02 AM -0700 2004-10-22, Chris Barker wrote:
Stephen Walton wrote:
There is a difference between the sum() Ufunc and the sum() method which is not mentioned in the documentation: the function works along an axis, while the method works on the whole array. That is, A.sum() and A.flat.sum() are equivalent regardless of the rank of A.
Bummer. I was hoping this was a move to a more object-oriented style, rather than different functionality. Also, it's pretty confusing terminology, particularly if it's not documented! Why not .SumAll() or something?
I agree. Numarray is already confusing enough without identically named functions and methods that do different things. (nElements and size are another pet peeve, with size used in several places and nElements appearing exactly once. Though I am grateful to whoever added size as a workalike for nElements; formerly you had to know what kind of array you had before you knew how to find out how many elements it had.)
-- Russell