[Numpy-discussion] Release notes for arraysetops changes

[Neil Crighton]

Hi, 

I've written some release notes (below) describing the changes to
arraysetops.py. If someone with commit access could check that these sound ok
and add them to the release notes file, that would be great.

Cheers,

Neil




New features
============

Improved set operations
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In previous versions of NumPy some set functions (intersect1d,
setxor1d, setdiff1d and setmember1d) could return incorrect results if
the input arrays contained duplicate items. These now work correctly
for input arrays with duplicates. setmember1d has been renamed to
in1d, as with the change to accept arrays with duplicates it is
no longer a set operation, and is conceptually similar to an
elementwise version of the Python operator 'in'.  All of these
functions now accept the boolean keyword assume_unique. This is False
by default, but can be set True if the input arrays are known not
to contain duplicates, which can increase the functions' execution
speed.


Deprecations
============

    #. unique1d: use unique instead. unique1d raises a deprecation
       warning in 1.4, and will be removed in 1.5.

    #. intersect1d_nu: use intersect1d instead. intersect1d_nu raises
       a deprecation warning in 1.4, and will be removed in 1.5.

    #. setmember1d: use in1d instead. setmember1d raises a deprecation
       warning in 1.4, and will be removed in 1.5.