[Numpy-discussion] Depreciating asfortranarray and ascontiguousarray

[Stephan Hoyer]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 3:10 PM Andras Deak <deak.andris at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 11:48 PM Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz
> <jfoxrabinovitz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > In that vein, would it be advisable to re-implement them as aliases for
> the correctly behaving functions instead?
> >
> > - Joe
>
> Wouldn't "probably, can't be changed without breaking external code"
> still apply? As I understand the suggestion for _deprecation_ is only
> because there's (a lot of) code relying on the current behaviour (or
> at least there's risk).


I would also advocate for fixing these functions if possible (removing
ndim=1). ascontiguousarray(...) is certainly more readable than asarray(...
order='C').

The conservative way to handle this would be to do a deprecation cycle,
specifically by issuing FutureWarning when scalars or 0d arrays are
encountered as inputs.

Cheers,
Stephan
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