[Numpy-discussion] Would like to patch docstring for numpy.random.normal

[Paul Hobson]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Mar 10, 2015 11:15 AM, "Paul Hobson" <pmhobson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Charles R Harris <
> charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Paul Hobson <pmhobson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I feel your pain. Making it worse, numpy.random.lognormal takes "mean"
> and "sigma" as input. If there's ever a backwards incompatible release, I
> hope these things will be cleared up.
> >>
> >>
> >> There is a numpy 2.0 milestone ;)
> >>
> >
> > Is it worth submitting PRs against the existing 2.X branch or is that so
> far away that the can should be kicked down the road?
>
> Not sure what you mean by "the existing 2.X branch" (does such a thing
> exist somewhere?), but yeah, don't submit PRs like that. Best case they'd
> bit rot before we ever get around to 2.0, worst case 2.0 may never happen.
> (What, you liked python 2 -> 3 so much you want to go through that again?)
>

It's been a while, but last time I build numpy from the master on github,
numpy.__version__ came back as 2.dev or something like that. So I always
assumed there was a 2.X branch.

It's been a while since I've built numpy, but clearly I'm mistaken.
-p
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