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.