[Numpy-discussion] New functions.

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Tue May 31 21:15:51 EDT 2011


On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 20:08, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been contemplating new functions that could be added to numpy and
> thought I'd run them by folks to see if there is any interest.
>
> 1) Modified sort/argsort functions that return the maximum k values.
>     This is easy to do with heapsort and almost as easy with mergesort.
>
> 2) Ufunc fadd (nanadd?) Treats nan as zero in addition. Should make a faster
> version of nansum possible.
>
> 3) Fast medians.

+3

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