[Numpy-discussion] Thoughts for 1.1

[Eric Firing]

Robert Kern wrote:
> On undefined, Timothy Hochberg <tim.hochberg@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
>> As to what to name it, if it did come to pass. I'm not happy 'keepshape'
>> since we'd not actually be keeping the shape, just the number of dimensions.
>> 'keepdims' is better, but still seem awkard. I'd prefer something like
>> 'reduce', so the signature would be a:
>>       mean(axis=None, dtype=None, out=None, reduce=True).
> 
> I imagine we would end up adding this capability to the .reduce()
> method of all binary ufuncs, so 'reduce' seems ... odd. 'keeprank'?
> 

What is maintained is the ndim attribute, so how about "keepndim"?

Or, how about "squeeze=True" for the present behavior, "squeeze=False" 
for the new option?  The only ambiguity would be whether "squeeze=True" 
is equivalent to calling the squeeze method, which should not be the 
case.  I don't think this ambiguity in the terminology would cause much 
trouble in practice.

Eric