On 18.06.2015 14:27, josef.pktd@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian@googlemail.com <mailto:jtaylor.debian@googlemail.com>> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Abraham Escalante <aeklant@gmail.com <mailto:aeklant@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hello all, > > As part of the ongoing scipy.stats improvements we are pondering the > deprecation of `stats.threshold` (and its masked array counterpart: > `mstats.threshold`) for the following reasons. > > The functionality it provides is nearly identical to `np.clip`. > Its usage does not seem to be common (Ralf made a search with searchcode; it > is not used in scipy as a helper function either).
I don't think those are sufficient reasons for deprecation. It does fullfil a purpose as its not exactly the same np.clip, the implementation is simple and maintainable and its documented well. There has to be something bad or dangerous about the function to warrant issuing warnings on usage.
I pretty much share the view of David, It has interesting use cases but it's not worth it.
I don't see the cost in keeping it, but the cost of removing it is unknown. Just because we can't find any users does not mean they don't exist.