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NEP: New NEP for identifying and coercing duck arrays #10706

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ahead and add some basic attributes like ``ndim``, ``shape``,
``dtype``.

Adding new abstract methods will be a bit trick, because ABCs enforce
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typo: tricky

start using it by habit without endless exhortations.

One option would be to actually change ``asarray``\'s semantics so
that *it* passes through ``AbstractArray`` objects unchanged. But I'm
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Perhaps just change asanyarray?

We can't use ``asanyarray`` or ``array``, since those are already
taken.

Any other ideas? ``np.cast``, ``np.coerce``?
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np.cast[np.float16](x) is already a thing

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1. Rename ``NDArrayOperatorsMixin`` to ``AbstractArray`` (leaving
behind an alias for backwards compatibility) and make it an ABC.
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Why not keep them separate, and have AbstractArray subclass the mixin? What about users who just want to use ufuncs, but no other part of the array interface?

@charris charris changed the title New NEP for identifying and coercing duck arrays NEP: New NEP for identifying and coercing duck arrays Apr 6, 2018
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charris commented Apr 6, 2018

Needs rebase to get rid of circleci error.

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mattip commented May 29, 2018

@njsmith should we move forward with merging this? It needs a rebase and some small fixes

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shoyer commented Oct 14, 2018

Maybe we can merge this in #12174 instead?

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mattip commented Oct 15, 2018

Closing in favor of #12174

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