On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:37 AM Robert Kern
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:30 AM Tyler Reddy
wrote: Chuck suggested ( https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11805#issuecomment-416069436 ) that we may want to consider deprecating np.ediff1d, which is perhaps not much more useful than np.diff, apart from having some arguably strange prepend / append behavior added in.
Related discussion on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39014324/difference-between-numpy-ediff1...
Thoughts?
Huh. Never knew this existed. I'd say about 50% of the time I use np.diff(), I'm doing that prepend/append behavior manually (and less readably, possibly inefficiently, but most importantly annoyingly).
I was thinking we might want to add something to `np.diff`, maybe using `np.pad`. Chuck