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authorJonathan Helmus <jjhelmus@gmail.com>2013-09-16 10:44:26 -0600
committerJonathan Helmus <jjhelmus@gmail.com>2013-09-16 10:44:26 -0600
commit9316110a42c370616cbb80ae3e1769534d04de10 (patch)
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parent9dd212cee1c9ccab6013d52e776bcf6ef712a5e0 (diff)
downloadnumpy-9316110a42c370616cbb80ae3e1769534d04de10.tar.gz
TST: note on overwrite_input parameter in percentile
* added note that `overwrite_input` has not effect when `a` is not an array in the percentile function. * added unit test to verify that no error is raised when `a` is not an array and `overwrite_input` is True.
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diff --git a/numpy/lib/function_base.py b/numpy/lib/function_base.py
index 9475c2edf..472d7eecc 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/function_base.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/function_base.py
@@ -2803,8 +2803,9 @@ def percentile(a, q, interpolation='linear', axis=None, out=None,
the contents of the input array. In this case you should not make
any assumptions about the content of the passed in array `a` after
this function completes -- treat it as undefined. Default is False.
- Note that, if `overwrite_input` is True and the input is not
- already an array, an error will be raised.
+ Note that, if the `a` input is not already an array this parameter
+ will have no effect, `a` will be converted to an array internally
+ regardless of the value of this parameter.
Returns
-------