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[Keith Goodman <kwgoodman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:54 PM,  <josef.pktd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (back on mailinglist)
>
> 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

Very nice. I didn't know that function existed. (It even handles
negative axes. I should make a unit test to make sure larry methods
can handle negative axes.)