[GitHub] [incubator-mxnet] barry-jin edited a comment on pull request #20572: [API] Standardize MXNet NumPy creation functions

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barry-jin edited a comment on pull request #20572:
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/20572#issuecomment-953131562


   > Thanks @barry-jin for the change! The library-wide change of context to device is certainly a large endeavor and an important step towards API standard compatibility.
   > 
   > One concern I have is about the use of ctx/context arguments in other functions. I think instead of resulting in unknown arguments we want to give existing users deprecation warnings for those arguments for one release.
   
   Yes, I agree. In this pr, I also reserve [context.py](https://github.com/barry-jin/incubator-mxnet/blob/data-api-creation-func/python/mxnet/context.py) to help inform the user about the context/ctx argument being deprecated. Also, in most of the functions using ctx as keyword, they will be wrapped with [decorator](https://github.com/barry-jin/incubator-mxnet/blob/data-api-creation-func/python/mxnet/util.py#L702) to change ctx to device. For function names which include ctx like reset_ctx, I will create a new one like reset_device and add deprecation warning to reset_ctx, like [this](https://github.com/barry-jin/incubator-mxnet/blob/f67701a5d8fd399224bf0dad7a85ba8806da6972/python/mxnet/gluon/block.py#L758-L775)


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