David M. Cooke wrote:
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:22:52 -0700 Sebastian Haase <haase@msg.ucsf.edu> wrote:
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 16:12, Bill Baxter wrote:
The thing that I find I keep forgetting is that abs() is a built-in, but other simple functions are not. So it's abs(foo), but numpy.floor(foo) and numpy.ceil(foo). And then there's round() which is a built-in but can't be used with arrays, so numpy.round_(foo). Seems like it would be more consistent to just add a numpy.abs() and numpy.round().
Regarding the original subject: a) "absolute" is impractically too much typing and b) I just thought some (module-) functions might be "forgotten" to be put in as (object-) methods ... !?
Four-line change, so I added a.abs() (three lines for array, one for MaskedArray).
While I appreciate it's proactive nature, I don't like this change because it adds another "ufunc" as a method. Right now, I think conj is the only other method like that. Instead, I like better the idea of adding abs, round, max, and min to the "non-import-*" namespace of numpy.