On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:33 PM, eat <e.antero.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Huh, > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:03 PM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Alan G Isaac <alan.is...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> I'm hoping this discussion will return to the drawing the line >> >> question. >> >> >> >> >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8108688/in-python-when-should-i-use-a-function-instead-of-a-method >> >> >> >> Alan Isaac >> > >> > >> > Proposed line: >> > >> > Reduction methods only. >> > >> > Discuss... >> >> arr.dot ? >> >> the 99 most common functions for which chaining looks nice. > > Care to elaborate more for us less uninitiated?
partially a joke. I don't see any good and simple rule to restrict the number of methods. dot was added as a method a few numpy versions ago, because it is painful to write nested or sequential dot products. Alan was in favor of the dot method and of matrix algebra because it's much easier on new users who come from a background that has a dot product as "*" or similar operator. As Skipper, I think the number of methods is not really huge (especially not numerical operations) Josef > > Regards, > -eat >> >> >> Josef >> >> > >> > >> > Ben Root >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org >> > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org >> http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
