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Re: Is there any reason to introduce this intermediate variable (sz)?

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On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 4:03:05 PM UTC-5, John Gordon wrote:
> In <bad9ac66-38aa-4445-a486-6df0e9c7752c@googlegroups.com> fl <@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > correctly. Could you see something useful with variable 'sz'?
> 
> 'sz' is fewer characters than '(n_iter,)', which may make your code easier
> to read.
> 
> The np.zeros() function explicitly accepts an 'int or sequence of ints',
> so you don't specifically need a sequence.  Is the same true for the
> 'size' keyword argument of np.random.normal()?
> 
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Hi, I get the following for the third parameter of np.random.normal():
size : int or tuple of ints, optional

I still don't see the necessity of 'sz'. Thanks,

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Is there any reason to introduce this intermediate variable (sz)? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 12:51 -0800
  Re: Is there any reason to introduce this intermediate variable (sz)? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-11-17 21:02 +0000
    Re: Is there any reason to introduce this intermediate variable (sz)? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 13:27 -0800
      Re: Is there any reason to introduce this intermediate variable (sz)? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-11-17 22:20 +0000
      Re: Is there any reason to introduce this intermediate variable (sz)? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-11-17 22:33 +0000
  Re: Is there any reason to introduce this intermediate variable (sz)? Dave Farrance <df@see.replyto.invalid> - 2015-11-18 08:05 +0000
  Re: Is there any reason to introduce this intermediate variable (sz)? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-18 05:02 -0500

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