[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] reduce methods

[Konrad Hinsen]

> In the second case, we're finding the minimum value in each row, so the
> result I would expect is:
> 
> 2
> 4
> 
> In other words, I'd expect the axis that was "reduced" to change to a length
> of one instead of completely going away.  Modifying Janko's min function to

But this is not how reduction works in Python (the built-in function
"reduce") or in any of the array languages I know. It's also not what
I would expect from a plain-English description: for me, a "sum of
a list of numbers" is a number, not a list of length one.

Konrad.
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