[Numpy-discussion] Code Freeze for NumPy 1.7

[Travis Oliphant]

This looked like an interesting one for sure.   I can't look at the PR right now for some reason (Github gave me a 500 error).     I know there were some comments, though. 

-Travis

On Jul 15, 2012, at 9:52 PM, Frédéric Bastien wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> there is a PR that I think could be merged before the relase:
> 
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/326
> 
> It is the addition of the inplace_increment function. It seam good,
> but I can't review it enough as it use many numpy internal that I
> never used or looked at. But the tests seam to cover all cases and it
> don't change current functions. So it should not have any side effect
> problems.
> 
> This was a feature frequently requested.
> 
> Fred
> 
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Travis Oliphant <travis at continuum.io> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Bump for: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/351
>>> 
>>> 
>>> As requested by njsmith, I gave a more detailed explanation and asked
>>> the list for input at:
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/numpy-discussion@scipy.org/msg38306.html
>>> 
>>> There was one qualified negative reply and nothing (yet) further. I'd
>>> appreciate if some other devs could weigh in.
>> 
>> I can see the point of your proposal, but I don't think we can just change the behavior of genfromtxt quite like this.  I'm not an expert on the genfromtxt code, so I don't know if I exactly understand what is changing and what is staying the same.
>> 
>>> From the look of the patch, it looks like you are changing the interpretation so that whereas headers used to be allowed in the "first-line" of the comment, they would no longer be allowed like that.  I don't think we can do that, because it breaks code for someone without a path for change.
>> 
>> Now, we could add another keyword (headers=True, for example), that interpreted the first non-commented line as the header line.    Something like that has a much higher chance of getting accepted from my perspective.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> -Travis
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> --
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