On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Alan G Isaac alan.isaac@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/29/2013 3:00 PM, Nathaniel wrote:
any objections to np.full?
Still curious: why isn't ``tile`` the right name? (It already exists.)
import numpy as np np.tile(3.0, (2,3))
array([[ 3., 3., 3.], [ 3., 3., 3.]])
If someone explained this, sorry to have missed it.
It's implemented inefficiently.
It is aimed at a different use case (building up arrays from other arrays) that only incidentally, and thus poorly, fulfils this one.
It has no relation to the empty()/ones()/zeros() line of functions. In particular, tile_like() would make no sense.
Being aimed at a different use case, it will be more difficult to find for people who are not familiar with numpy's entire API. It will be an isolated idiom rather than a natural completion of the existing APIs.
I can probably think of others if I really get going, but I think we're about at the point of diminishing returns.