On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Damian Eads <eads@soe.ucsc.edu> wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Chris Colbert <sccolbert@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> So my next question is: how much hand holding should I do on my end
>> for the user?
>>
>> There are several things I would like to address here:
>>
>> - opencv makes extensive use of *out arguments, should we require the user to
>>  preallocate their out array or should we make it for them and return it.
>>  The latter option is more pythonic, but comes with a small overhead for
>>  determining a proper return dtype
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> I think having out be None by default is best.
>

That's how i've been going about it so far, but that obviously incurs
an overhead of determining, exactly if and what to return.