Charles R Harris writes: [...]
It might useful to have a way of setting global defaults, or something like a with statement. These are the sort of things that can be adjusted based on experience. For instance, I'm thinking skipna=1 is the natural default for the masked arrays.
I already raised this concern during the initial discussions, and Mark came up with nice solution. Instead of having an additional stateful global interface that code would have to check in addition to the "skipna" argument, you can have a simple function that takes and/or constructs an ndarray and redefines its ufunc wrapper to always set the "skipna = True" argument. Lluis -- "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth