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

[Fredrik Lundh]

> I agree, although I'd prefer search_sorted() (always nitpicking...)
> The name binarysearch() may indicate the restriction to sorted arrays
> to anyone familiar with searching algorithms, but we can't expect all
> users to be familiar with them.

 What about some kind of hint mechanisms, like "search() vs.
search(SORTED)" or something more elegant.

 I suppose such stuff would be applicable to many other numerical
methods as well (but otoh, I'm just a programmer ;-)

> I am sure that if I cry out aloud "what's a binary search" in our
> terminal room, I won't get a single correct answer.

 I just tried that here, and people immediately started discussing
search complexity and implementation details.  That it required sorted
data was so obvious that noone even told me...

Cheers	/F

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