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| author | Marten van Kerkwijk <mhvk@astro.utoronto.ca> | 2016-11-18 13:55:45 -0500 |
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| committer | Marten van Kerkwijk <mhvk@astro.utoronto.ca> | 2016-11-19 12:50:28 -0500 |
| commit | 3f3d205cd3f607caeada0dddf41e996e288a3c50 (patch) | |
| tree | d2e8cf7b53e0835edcdff4ee63fbbd7dc7a9665c /doc | |
| parent | ec02bdc782f1de83520dfd2c4eb0c48d69c909e6 (diff) | |
| download | numpy-3f3d205cd3f607caeada0dddf41e996e288a3c50.tar.gz | |
MAINT: let average preserve subclass information.
This behaviour matches that for most other numpy functions (such as
np.mean). It was initially slated for 1.12, but replaced by a
FutureWarning. Hence, this is for 1.13.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/release/1.13.0-notes.rst | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/release/1.13.0-notes.rst b/doc/release/1.13.0-notes.rst index f37ba90ae..bd5be6859 100644 --- a/doc/release/1.13.0-notes.rst +++ b/doc/release/1.13.0-notes.rst @@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ DeprecationWarning to error FutureWarning to changed behavior ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +* ``numpy.average`` now preserves subclasses, matching the behavior of most + other numpy functions such as ``mean``. As a consequence, also calls that + returned a scalar may now return a subclass array scalar. + + C API ~~~~~ @@ -53,3 +58,10 @@ Improvements Changes ======= + +``average`` now preserves subclasses +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +For ndarray subclasses, ``numpy.average`` will now return an instance of the +subclass, matching the behavior of most other numpy functions such as ``mean``. +As a consequence, also calls that returned a scalar may now return a subclass +array scalar. |