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author | Charles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> | 2013-08-15 12:53:59 -0600 |
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committer | Charles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> | 2013-08-16 12:12:29 -0600 |
commit | fb7bfd810925227d4889d0e0a4148135bba01031 (patch) | |
tree | 6cdee101c573086b610188abccd4380d241d3c59 /doc | |
parent | 3bc6b963a8b35e77fba901744121f6dd5f0162f1 (diff) | |
download | numpy-fb7bfd810925227d4889d0e0a4148135bba01031.tar.gz |
DOC: Update 1.8.0 release notes.
Add remarks on changes due in the next release and FutureWarnings.
Add notes on the new functions in the array C-API.
Add notes on the new function in th ufunc C-API.
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/release/1.8.0-notes.rst | 35 |
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/release/1.8.0-notes.rst b/doc/release/1.8.0-notes.rst index 5923c7ea3..1cc8c0c08 100644 --- a/doc/release/1.8.0-notes.rst +++ b/doc/release/1.8.0-notes.rst @@ -19,6 +19,20 @@ Support for Python versions 2.4 and 2.5 has been dropped, Support for SCons has been removed. +Future Changes +============== + +The Datetime64 type remains experimental in this release. In 1.9 there will +probably be some changes to make it more useable. + +The diagonal method currently returns a new array and raises a +FutureWarning. In 1.9 it will return a readonly view. + +Multiple field selection from a array of structured type currently +returns a new array and raises a FutureWarning. In 1.9 it will return a +readonly view. + +The numeric and numarray compatibility modules will be removed in 1.9. Compatibility notes =================== @@ -268,8 +282,23 @@ Several changes to np.insert and np.delete: Padded regions from np.pad are now correctly rounded, not truncated. -C-API -~~~~~ +C-API Array Additions +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Three new functions have been added to the array C-API. +* PyArray_Partition +* PyArray_ArgPartition +* PyArray_SelectkindConverter +* PyDataMem_NEW_ZEROED + +C-API Ufunc Additions +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +One new function has been added to the ufunc C-API that allows to register +an inner loop for user types using the descr. +* PyUFunc_RegisterLoopForDescr + + Deprecations ============ @@ -288,6 +317,8 @@ NumPy 1.8., and in some future version of NumPy they will raise an error. C-API ~~~~~ +None + New Features ============ |