[Numpy-discussion] Re: Numeric3 PEP

[Ralf Juengling]

Tim Hochberg wrote:
> I'd like to lobby against flatten(), r() and i(). To a large extent, 
> these duplicate the functionality of flat, real and imag. And, these 
> three methods are defined to sometimes return copies and sometimes 
> return views. That type of interface is a recipe for errors and should 
> only be used as a last resort. 

I feel the same.


> Flatten() is not necessary now that flat will be faux array with a view 
> to the original [I believe you are calling it an indexable iterator].  I 
> would, however,  recomend that A.flat.copy() work. In that case, A.flat 
> would be used when no copy was desired, and A.flat.copy() when a copy 
> was desired.  

Good idea.

ralf