On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 22:31, Christopher Jordan-Squire <cjordan1@uw.edu> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 22:07, Christopher Jordan-Squire <cjordan1@uw.edu> wrote:
So in the mean time, are there any suggestions for what this R sample function should be called, since random.sample is apparently taken?
If you default to size=1 (which you probably should anyways), then np.random.choice() makes sense, in analogy to random.choice() from the standard library.
Alright. I can make that change tomorrow. I'd prefer np.sample in the long-run, for compatibility with R. (False friends are loathsome things.)
We have a number of software packages we might want to be compatible with and a limited English vocabulary. There is always going to be some overlap with someone that is misleading in some contexts. It's a concern, but not an overriding one.
How does one petition to get function names deprecated?
Ask here. Obtain general agreement. Write a patch. Not necessarily in that order. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco