[SciPy-Dev] Code review for trapz update

[Sturla Molden]

On 11/03/15 00:23, fizyxnrd wrote:

> It appears that there is more use for the current form than I have come
> across with my adventures in positive-definite quantities.  Is there
> room for a keyword e.g., unsorted ( so that the call is trapz(y, x=None,
> dx = 1.0, axis=-1, unsorted=False) where if unsorted is set to True, the
> data is automatically sorted before integration?

I think a numerical integral routine should only return an approximation 
to the integral. If you sort the data the trapz function is no longer 
returning an approximation to the integral.

Sturla