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diff --git a/doc/release/1.9.0-notes.rst b/doc/release/1.9.0-notes.rst index 9aa39342a..4ecacaf9e 100644 --- a/doc/release/1.9.0-notes.rst +++ b/doc/release/1.9.0-notes.rst @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Dropped Support * The numpy/testing/numpytest.py file has been removed together with the importall function it contained. + Future Changes ============== @@ -25,9 +26,11 @@ Future Changes Numpy 1.10.0. This will certainly break some code that is currently ignoring the warning. * Relaxed stride checking will be the default in 1.10.0 -* String version checks will break because, e.g., '1.9' > '1.10' is True. +* String version checks will break because, e.g., '1.9' > '1.10' is True. A + NumpyVersion class has been added that can be used for such comparisons. * The diagonal and diag functions will return writeable views in 1.10.0 + Compatibility notes =================== @@ -120,6 +123,7 @@ Applications that now fail can be fixed by masking the higher 32 bit values to zero: ``seed = seed & 0xFFFFFFFF``. This is what is done silently in older versions so the random stream remains the same. + New Features ============ @@ -178,11 +182,20 @@ this new boolean argument. The number of times each unique item comes up in the input can now be obtained as an optional return value. -Support for median in nanfunctions -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Taking the median of an ``ndarray`` while ignoring the nans in an array +Support for median in nanfunctions +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Taking the median of an ``ndarray`` while ignoring the nans in an array was added with the ``np.nanmedian`` function. +NumpyVersion class added +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The class may be imported from numpy.lib and can be used for version +comparison when the numpy version goes to 1.10.devel. For example:: + + >>> from numpy.lib import NumpyVersion + >>> if NumpyVersion(np.__version__) < '1.10.0'): + ... print('Wow, that is an old NumPy version!') + Improvements ============ @@ -243,6 +256,7 @@ MaskedArray support for more complicated base classes Built-in assumptions that the baseclass behaved like a plain array are being removed. In particalur, ``repr`` and ``str`` should now work more reliably. + Changes ======= |