Hello all,
I have
PR #7325 up that changes the internal calls for functions in
fromnumeric.py from positional arguments to keyword arguments. I made this change for two reasons:
1) It is consistent with the external function signature
2)
The inconsistency caused a breakage in pandas in its own implementation of searchsorted in which the sorter argument is not really used but is accepted so as to make it easier for numpy users who may be used to the searchsorted signature in numpy.
The standard in pandas is to "swallow" those unused arguments into a kwargs argument so that we don't have to document an argument that we don't really use. However, that turned out not to be possible when searchsorted is called from the numpy library.
Does anyone have any objections to the changes I made?
Thanks!
Greg