Yes. I have made the change to partially sort (and just keep full sorting for numpy < 1.8.0). If anyone has other observations, please feel free to mention them.

Here is the PR again: 4910

Cheers,
Abraham.

2015-06-11 6:31 GMT-05:00 Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com>:
Abraham Escalante <aeklant@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> `trim1` and `trimboth` currently trim items from one or both tails
> (respectively) of an array_like input but they do so without sorting the
> items. It has been discussed that a function such as that does not make
> much sense so that behaviour is being changed. Now the items will be sorted
> prior to trimming.


Wouldn't it be sufficient to do partial sorting (cf. numpy.partition)?

Sturla

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