[Numpy-discussion] Add guaranteed no-copy to array creation and reshape?

[Ralf Gommers]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 11:30 AM Eric Wieser <wieser.eric+numpy at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> @Ralf
>
> np.newaxis is not relevant here - it’s a simple alias for None, is just
> there for code readability, and is much more widely applicable than
> np.never_copy would be.
>
> Is there any particular reason we chose to use None? If I were designing
> it again, I’d consider a singleton object with a better __repr__
>
It stems from Numeric:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-September/552203.html.
Note that the Python builtin slice also uses None, but that's probably due
to Numeric using it first.

Agree that a singleton with a nice repr could be a better choice than None.
The more important part of my comment was "widely applicable" though.
Slicing is a lot more important than some keyword. And design-wise, filling
the numpy namespace with singletons for keyword to other things in that
same namespace just makes no sense to me.

Cheers,
Ralf



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