[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Last complaints about NumPy 1.0a5

[Konrad Hinsen]

Reading David's excellent tutorial has made me aware of a few
peculiarities that I had forgotten, and which should be cleaned
up before the beta release:

1) where() is just a special case of choose() and should be
   eliminated.

2) compress() is just a special case of repeat() and should be
   eliminated.

3) binarysearch() should be called just search(), or find().
   The name of a function should not indicate the algorithm
   that is uses, however obvious the choice of the algorithm
   is.

4) I am a bit confused about the exact meaning of the parameters
   to diagonal() and trace(). Shouldn't that simply be to integers,
   indicating the two axes along which the diagonal is constructed,
   and defaulting to -2 and -1?

5) There's dot() and matrixmultiply(). Dot() does something for which
   I have never found a direct need, and which anyway should not be
   called dot() because it doesn't work like what linear algebra
   users expect dot() to mean. How about having just dot() with a
   useful generalization of the dot product, i.e. summing along
   the last axis of the first and the first axis of the second argument?
   (I think we have discussed this before, but I don't remember details...)

Konrad.
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