[Numpy-discussion] nonzero() behaviour has changed

[Simon Burton]

On Mon, 15 May 2006 22:13:57 -0600
Travis Oliphant <oliphant.travis at ieee.org> wrote:

> 
> Chris Fonnesback releases quite up-to-date binary releases of NumPy and 
> SciPy for Mac OSX.

Yes:
http://homepage.mac.com/fonnesbeck/mac/index.html

> 
> An alternative solution is to use the functional form:
> 
> nonzero(a) works the same as a.nonzero() did before for backwards 
> compatibility. 
> 
> The behavior of a.nonzero() was changed for compatibility with numarray.

Is this a general strategy employed by numpy ? Ie. functions have old semantics,
methods have numarray semantics ?  Scary.

Simon.

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