[Numpy-discussion] Was the range() function ever created?

C W tmrsg11 at gmail.com
Fri May 24 22:43:42 EDT 2019


When I looked up pandas mailing list. Numpy showed up. Maybe is because
Pandas is built on Numpy? My apologies.

Yes, please do. For people with statistical background, but not CS. It
seems strange the *real* range() function is used to generate natural
numbers.

Thanks, Ben!



On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:34 PM Benjamin Root <ben.v.root at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is the numpy discussion list, not the pandas discussion list. Now,
> for numpy's part, I have had hankerings for a `np.minmax()` ufunc, but
> never enough to get over just calling min and max on my data separately.
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:27 PM C W <tmrsg11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am want to calculate the range of a vector. I saw that someone asked
>> for range() in 2011, but was it ever created?
>> https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/288
>>
>> Response at the time was to use df.describe(). But df.describe() gives
>> all the 5-number summary statistics, but I DON'T WANT wall the extra stuff
>> I didn't ask for. I was expected a numerical number. I can use that to feed
>> into another function.
>>
>> It exists in Matlab and R, why not in Python? I'm quite frustrated every
>> time I need to calculate the range.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>>
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