Make errstate a ContextDecorator

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/release/1.17.0-notes.rst b/doc/release/1.17.0-notes.rst
index c79c966c7..73de0b148 100644
--- a/doc/release/1.17.0-notes.rst
+++ b/doc/release/1.17.0-notes.rst
@@ -81,6 +81,27 @@ new function, ``np.ctypeslib.as_ctypes`` now supports a much wider range of
 array types, including structures, booleans, and integers of non-native
 endianness.
 
+`numpy.errstate` is now also function decorator
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+Currently, if you have a function like::
+
+    def foo():
+        pass
+
+and you want to wrap the whole thing in `errstate`, you have to rewrite it like so::
+
+    def foo():
+        with np.errstate(...):
+            pass
+
+but with this change, you can do::
+
+    @np.errstate(...)
+    def foo():
+        pass
+
+thereby saving a level of indentation
 
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