[Numpy-discussion] Should arr.diagonal() return a copy or a view? (1.7 compatibility issue)
Travis Oliphant
travis at continuum.io
Wed May 16 16:15:10 EDT 2012
On May 13, 2012, at 3:11 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Travis Oliphant <travis at continuum.io> wrote:
>> Another approach would be to introduce a method:
>>
>> a.diag(copy=False)
>>
>> and leave a.diagonal() alone. Then, a.diagonal() could be deprecated over
>> 2-3 releases.
>
> This would be a good idea if we didn't already have both
> np.diagonal(a) (which is an alias for a.diagonal()) *and* np.diag(a),
> which do different things. And the new a.diag() would be different
> from the existing np.diag(a)...
I don't see how the new a.diag() would be different than np.diag(a) except for view semantics for 2-d arrays. Is this really a problem?
-Travis
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