Re: [Visualpython-users] VP3-VP5, what's NewAxis ?

[Guy K. K. <g....@ma...>]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:42:51 Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> I don't know why numpy made some seemingly trivial
> changes such as NewAxis -> newaxis. Annoying.

I'd guess they did it as it's more PEP-8 compatible. NewAxis looks like a 
class, whereas newaxis is an attribute, variable, or some other identifier. 
numpy.newaxis is comparable to visual.color.magenta in a way.

I'm glad that it's renamed, as it is not possible to create a NewAxis 
instance, and therefore is much less confusing to the Python programmer.

Guy

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