Opened 12 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#214 closed enhancement (wontfix)

Include broadcasting rules from numpy into WCPS

Reported by: beccati@… Owned by: abeccati
Priority: minor Milestone: Future
Component: petascope Version: 8.3
Keywords: wcps array broadcast numpy Cc: Marcus Sen
Complexity: Very Hard

Description

Python array processing library numpy provides a nice way of handling arrays of different dimensionality, that would also allow operations between scalar values and arrays by broadcasting a scalar to an array according to well defined rules [1].

[1] http://www.scipy.org/EricsBroadcastingDoc

Change History (5)

comment:1 by Peter Baumann, 12 years ago

Milestone: Future
Owner: changed from Dimitar Misev to abeccati
Status: newassigned
Version: 8.3

Type coercion is already available in rasdaman, so we should check what is missing.

comment:2 by Marcus Sen, 11 years ago

Cc: Marcus Sen added
Complexity: Very Hard

comment:3 by Peter Baumann, 11 years ago

can we have an update on the reference?

"The requested URL /EricsBroadcastingDoc was not found on this server."

thanks!

comment:4 by Marcus Sen, 11 years ago

New location of numpy broadcasting notes http://wiki.scipy.org/EricsBroadcastingDoc

comment:5 by Peter Baumann, 10 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: assignedclosed

Implementation of WCPS is based on the official document issued by OGC. To be in conformance we cannot implement type casting rules of some other programming language.

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