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authorCimarron Mittelsteadt <cimarronm@gmail.com>2014-10-02 17:24:24 -0700
committerCimarron Mittelsteadt <cimarronm@gmail.com>2014-10-02 17:24:24 -0700
commitaaa8940913902001a4961d793e7238eafc193861 (patch)
tree9b64fca25ac9cbc3ff4c394c9fe8fa0fae33bfb1
parent58350f4608a22f4b4b66795f51eaefc206bd02b8 (diff)
downloadnumpy-aaa8940913902001a4961d793e7238eafc193861.tar.gz
DOC: Updated from numeric doc to indicate where axis can also be a tuple of ints, i.e. axes, over which to perform the given operation
-rw-r--r--numpy/core/fromnumeric.py28
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py b/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py
index 1cb1ed8bc..01325728c 100644
--- a/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py
+++ b/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py
@@ -2095,8 +2095,9 @@ def amax(a, axis=None, out=None, keepdims=False):
----------
a : array_like
Input data.
- axis : int, optional
- Axis along which to operate. By default, flattened input is used.
+ axis : int or tuple of ints, optional
+ Axis or axes along which to operate. By default, flattened input is
+ used.
out : ndarray, optional
Alternative output array in which to place the result. Must
be of the same shape and buffer length as the expected output.
@@ -2179,8 +2180,9 @@ def amin(a, axis=None, out=None, keepdims=False):
----------
a : array_like
Input data.
- axis : int, optional
- Axis along which to operate. By default, flattened input is used.
+ axis : int or tuple of ints, optional
+ Axis or axes along which to operate. By default, flattened input is
+ used.
out : ndarray, optional
Alternative output array in which to place the result. Must
be of the same shape and buffer length as the expected output.
@@ -2693,9 +2695,9 @@ def mean(a, axis=None, dtype=None, out=None, keepdims=False):
a : array_like
Array containing numbers whose mean is desired. If `a` is not an
array, a conversion is attempted.
- axis : int, optional
- Axis along which the means are computed. The default is to compute
- the mean of the flattened array.
+ axis : int or tuple of ints, optional
+ Axis or axes along which the means are computed. The default is to
+ compute the mean of the flattened array.
dtype : data-type, optional
Type to use in computing the mean. For integer inputs, the default
is `float64`; for floating point inputs, it is the same as the
@@ -2778,9 +2780,9 @@ def std(a, axis=None, dtype=None, out=None, ddof=0, keepdims=False):
----------
a : array_like
Calculate the standard deviation of these values.
- axis : int, optional
- Axis along which the standard deviation is computed. The default is
- to compute the standard deviation of the flattened array.
+ axis : int or tuple of ints, optional
+ Axis or axes along which the standard deviation is computed. The
+ default is to compute the standard deviation of the flattened array.
dtype : dtype, optional
Type to use in computing the standard deviation. For arrays of
integer type the default is float64, for arrays of float types it is
@@ -2881,9 +2883,9 @@ def var(a, axis=None, dtype=None, out=None, ddof=0,
a : array_like
Array containing numbers whose variance is desired. If `a` is not an
array, a conversion is attempted.
- axis : int, optional
- Axis along which the variance is computed. The default is to compute
- the variance of the flattened array.
+ axis : int or tuple of ints, optional
+ Axis or axes along which the variance is computed. The default is to
+ compute the variance of the flattened array.
dtype : data-type, optional
Type to use in computing the variance. For arrays of integer type
the default is `float32`; for arrays of float types it is the same as