[Numpy-discussion] Style for pad implementation in 'pad' namespace or functions under np.lib

[Chris Barker]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Tim Cera

>> I think there is also a question of using a prefix pad_xxx for the
>> function names as opposed to pad.xxx.

"Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!"


> If I had it as pad.mean, pad.median, ...etc. then someone could
>
>     from numpy.pad import *
>     a = np.arange(5)
>     # then you would have a confusing
>     b = mean(a, 2)

exactly why no one should *ever* do import *!

pad.mean

is not more typing than

pad_mean

so there in NO reason to use the latter, except to have a C style,
rather than python namespaces....

ANd what if someone DOES want to override mean?:

from np.pad import mean

and now they can do

mean(something)

and it's explicite what they mean to do.

-Chris

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