[Numpy-discussion] Possible Deprecation of np.ediff1d

[Robert Kern]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:30 AM Tyler Reddy <tyler.je.reddy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Chuck suggested (
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11805#issuecomment-416069436 ) that
> we may want to consider deprecating np.ediff1d, which is perhaps not much
> more useful than np.diff, apart from having some arguably strange prepend /
> append behavior added in.
>
> Related discussion on SO:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39014324/difference-between-numpy-ediff1d-and-diff
>
> Thoughts?
>

Huh. Never knew this existed. I'd say about 50% of the time I use
np.diff(), I'm doing that prepend/append behavior manually (and less
readably, possibly inefficiently, but most importantly annoyingly).

-- 
Robert Kern
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