[Numpy-discussion] Medians that ignore values

[David Cournapeau]

Peter Saffrey wrote:
>
> I've found that if I just cut nans from the list and use regular numpy median,
> it is quicker - 10 times slower than list median, rather than 35 times slower.
> Could you just wire nanmedian to do it this way? 

Unfortunately, we can't, because we would loose generality: we need to
compute median on any axis, not only the last one. The proper solution
would be to have a sort/max/min/etc... which knows about nan in numpy,
which is what Chuck and I are working on ATM,

cheers,

David