[Numpy-discussion] why numarray.inputarray?

[Tim Hochberg]

Todd Miller wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 13:55, Tim Hochberg wrote:
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>>I just noticed that the name asarray is considered obsolete and is to be 
>>replaced with inputarray. Why is that? 
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>I'm not sure what gave you that impression;  asarray() isn't obsolete.
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It was this:

*asarray*( 	seq, type=None, typecode=None)

An alias for inputarray. This is deprecated and only provided for 
compatibility with Numeric.

from http://stsdas.stsci.edu/numarray/Doc/node21.html#l2h-6. Perhaps 
these docs should be tweaked a little not to freak out sensitive people 
like me <0.5 wink>.

Regards,

-tim




>inputarray() was implemented "independently" and then I discovered
>afterward that it should have been called asarray().  At the time,  I
>was hesitant to rename public functions so I just added the asarray()
>alias rather than renaming inputarray().
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>>The name asarray has a pretty 
>>clear connection with it's behaviour (return it's argument as an array), 
>>while I can come up with no such connection for inputarray. The best I 
>>can come up with is that it's often used on the inputs of functions to 
>>coerce them to arrays, but that seems a pretty tenuous connection. Is 
>>there a better reason? 
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>Nope.
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>>Am I just being obtuse?
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>>-tim
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