-1 on the 'arr' name. I think if we're going to support this function at all (which I'm not convinced is a good idea), it should be np.fromsomething like the other from* functions. Maybe frommatlab? I think that 'arr' is just too generic and too close to 'array'. On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <ndarray@mac.com> wrote:
Also, the use of strings will confuse most syntax highlighters. Compare the two options in this screenshot:
[image: Inline image 2]
I guess this is a minor issue for "real" code, but even IPython doesn't (yet?) provide syntax highlighting for lines as they're typed, and this is a tool intended mainly for interactive use.
That screenshot also I think illustrates why people have such a preference for the first syntax. The second line looks nice, but try typing it quickly and getting all the commas located correctly inside versus outside of each of the triply-nested brackets...
No-one's come up with any names for this that are nearly as good as "arr". Is it really that bad to have to type one extra character, np.array instead of np.arr<tab>?
-n
-- Nathaniel J. Smith Postdoctoral researcher - Informatics - University of Edinburgh http://vorpus.org
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