I think that’s fine, but perhaps axis should be defined more formally somewhere, as it is relatively untraditional.

On 2014, Jan 02, at 17:36 , Charles Harris <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In numpy/core/fromnumeric.py:
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> >          which case it counts from the last to the first axis.
> > +        `axis` = 0 or 1 will sum over the elements of the 
> I think that's a bit confusing, as k indexes the dimension and talking about the (k+1)th dimension requires one to translate to 'first, second, third, ...' dimension. Why not just 'sum over the element of the k'th axis'?
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