[SciPy-user] **kwds in frozen distribution class

[joep]

I was trying to work on an example for the frozen distribution class,
in response to the previous message by Michael.

The change in method signature between frozen and not frozen class got
me
confused:
I looked at the information in
help(stats.norm.stats)

and did not realize that the signature in
help(stats.norm(loc = 10, scale = 10).stats) or help(stats.norm(loc =
10, scale = 10))

is different.

Given the description it does what it says, but I think it would be
easy to
make the keyword arguments consistent between frozen and not frozen
distribution


The frozen distribution class does not take any additional keywords
-------------------------------------------------------------------
e.g.

>>> from scipy import stats
>>> stats.norm.stats(loc = 10, scale = 10, moments='v')
array(100.0)
>>> stats.norm(loc = 10, scale = 10).stats(moments='v')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#91>", line 1, in ?
    stats.norm(loc = 10, scale = 10).stats(moments='v')
TypeError: stats() got an unexpected keyword argument 'moments'
>>> stats.norm(loc = 10, scale = 10, moments='v').stats()
array(100.0)


line numbers from current trunk
(http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scipy/browser/trunk/scipy/stats/
distributions.py)

101 	# Frozen RV class
102 	class rv_frozen(object):

121 	    def stats(self):
122 	        return self.dist.stats(*self.args,**self.kwds)

I think this change should work to accept additional keywords:

121 	    def stats(self,**kwds):
                kwds.update(self.kwds)
122 	        return self.dist.stats(*self.args,**kwds)

Josef