[Numpy-discussion] Shouldn't all in-place operations simply return self?

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:24 AM,  <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.root at ou.edu> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Jim Vickroy <jim.vickroy at noaa.gov> wrote:
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>>> On 1/16/2013 11:41 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
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>>> On 16 Jan 2013 17:54, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > >>> a = np.random.random_integers(0, 5, size=5)
>>> > >>> b = a.sort()
>>> > >>> b
>>> > >>> a
>>> > array([0, 1, 2, 5, 5])
>>> >
>>> > >>> b = np.random.shuffle(a)
>>> > >>> b
>>> > >>> b = np.random.permutation(a)
>>> > >>> b
>>> > array([0, 5, 5, 2, 1])
>>> >
>>> > How do I remember if shuffle shuffles or permutes ?
>>> >
>>> > Do we have a list of functions that are inplace?
>>>
>>> I rather like the convention used elsewhere in Python of naming in-place
>>> operations with present tense imperative verbs, and out-of-place operations
>>> with past participles. So you have sort/sorted, reverse/reversed, etc.
>>>
>>> Here this would suggest we name these two operations as either shuffle()
>>> and shuffled(), or permute() and permuted().
>>>
>>>
>>> I like this (tense) suggestion.  It seems easy to remember.  --jv
>>>
>>>
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>> And another score for functions as verbs!
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> I don't thing the filled we discuss here is an action.
>
> The current ``fill`` is an inplace operation, operating on an existing array.
> ``filled`` would be the analog that returns a copy.
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> However ``filled`` here is creating an object
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> I still think ``array_filled`` is the most precise
>
> '''Create an array and initialize it with the ``value``, returning the array '''
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> my 2.5c
>
> Josef

Sorry, completely out of context.

I shouldn't write emails, when I'm running in and out the office.

Josef

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>> :-P
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>> Ben Root
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