[Numpy-discussion] array, asarray as contiguous and friends

[Colin J. Williams]

Sasha wrote:

>On 3/23/06, Travis Oliphant <oliphant at ee.byu.edu> wrote:
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>>Thus, in my mind, the array call should get another flag keyword that
>>forces a contiguous result.
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>Please don't! 
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+1

>The fortran flag is bad enough, but has too much history
>behind it.  Let's not breed boolean parameters. Sooner or later
>someone will use keword arguments positionally and you will end up
>guessing what
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>array([1,2], int8_, 1, 1, 0, 0)
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>means.
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The use of keyword parameters can help here.  Various editors use them 
to provide tips and there is the help function.

Colin W.