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On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Keith Goodman <kwgoodman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:02 PM,  <josef.pktd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I don't have a strong opinion either about the dimension reduction,
>> for consistency with the numpy philosophy the dimension should be
>> reduced, for working with larry it is easier for a user to remove than
>> to add an axis.
>
> How about insertaxis for the name? Or do you like addaxis better?
>
> insertaxis(axis=0, label=None)
>

definitely not expand_dims, I had to look at the changes in scipy svn to find it

I usually think of it as addaxis, but I can get used to insertaxis
(from list analogy)

you can use np.expand_dims to insert axis into x

Josef