On 13 Jul 2013 16:30, "Alan G Isaac" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Alan G Isaac <[email protected]<mailto:
[email protected]>> wrote:
> > I miss being able to spell a.conj().T as a.H, as one can
> > with numpy matrices.
>
>
> On 7/7/2013 4:49 PM, Charles R Harris wrote:
> > There was a long thread about this back around 1.1 or so,
> > long time ago in any case. IIRC correctly, Travis was
> > opposed. I think part of the problem was that arr.T is
> > a view, but arr.H would not be. Probably it could be be
> > made to return an iterator that performed the conjugation,
> > or we could simply return a new array. I'm not opposed
> > myself, but I'd have to review the old discussion to see
> > if there was good reason not to have it in the first
> > place. I think the original discussion of an abs method
> > took place about the same time.
>
>
> If not being a view is determinative, could a .ct() method
> be considered? Or would the objection apply there too?
Why not just write
def H(a):
return a.conj().T
in your local namespace? The resulting code will be even more concise than
if we had a .ct() method.
ndarray has way too many attributes already IMHO (though I realize this may
be a minority view).
-n
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