[Numpy-discussion] bincount() optional length argument

[Robert Kern]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 16:13, David Warde-Farley <dwf at cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
> I've been using bincount() in situations where I always want the count vector to be a certain fixed length, even if the upper bins are 0. e.g. I want the counts of 0 through 9, and if there are no 9's in the vector I'm counting, I'd still like it to be at least length 10. It's kind of a pain to have to check for this case and concatenate 0's, nevermind an extra array allocation.
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> How would people feel about an optional argument to support this behaviour? I'd be happy with either a "minlength" or an "exactly this length" with values above this range being ignored, but it seems like the latter might be useful in more cases.

minlength works for me.

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