[Numpy-discussion] step paramter for linspace

Henry Gomersall heng at cantab.net
Fri Mar 1 07:33:14 EST 2013


On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 13:25 +0100, Sebastian Berg wrote:
> there has been a request on the issue tracker for a step parameter to
> linspace. This is of course tricky with the imprecision of floating
> point numbers.

How is that different to arange? Either you specify the number of points
with linspace, or you specify the step with arange. Is there a third
option?

My usual hack to deal with the numerical bounds issue is to add/subtract
half the step.

Henry





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