[Numpy-discussion] Infinity definitions

[Christopher Barker]

Jarrod Millman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Bruce Southey <bsouthey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Following Travis's suggestion below, I would like to suggest that the
>> following definitions be depreciated or removed in this forthcoming release:
>>
>> numpy.Inf
>> numpy.Infinity
>> numpy.infty
>> numpy.PINF
>> numpy.NAN
>> numpy.NaN

Just to be clear, is the idea to remove the duplicate names, which will 
leave us with:

numpy.nan
numpy.inf

What about:

numpy.NINF

should that be:

numpy.ninf

And is there a need for:

numpy.pinf

(or is that just redundant with numpy.inf)

anyway, +1 for removing redundancies...

-Chris


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