Deprecate positional out argument in dpnp.minimum and dpnp.maximum

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Also, that release drops support for Python 3.9, making Python 3.10 the minimum
 ### Deprecated
 
 * `dpnp.asfarray` is deprecated. Use `dpnp.asarray` with an appropriate dtype instead [#2650](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2650)
+* Passing the output array ``out`` positionally to `dpnp.minimum` and `dpnp.maximum` is deprecated. Pass the output with the keyword form, e.g. ``dpnp.minimum(a, b, out=c)`` [#2659](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2659)
 
 ### Removed
 

doc/conf.py

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 from dpnp.dpnp_algo.dpnp_elementwise_common import (
     DPNPBinaryFunc,
+    DPNPBinaryFuncOutKw,
     DPNPUnaryFunc,
     DPNPUnaryTwoOutputsFunc,
 )
@@ -210,7 +211,13 @@
 # -- Options for todo extension ----------------------------------------------
 def _can_document_member(member, *args, **kwargs):
     if isinstance(
-        member, (DPNPBinaryFunc, DPNPUnaryFunc, DPNPUnaryTwoOutputsFunc)
+        member,
+        (
+            DPNPBinaryFunc,
+            DPNPBinaryFuncOutKw,
+            DPNPUnaryFunc,
+            DPNPUnaryTwoOutputsFunc,
+        ),
     ):
         return True
     return orig(member, *args, **kwargs)

dpnp/dpnp_algo/dpnp_elementwise_common.py

@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
 # THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 # *****************************************************************************
 
+import warnings
+from functools import wraps
+
 import dpctl.tensor as dpt
 import dpctl.tensor._copy_utils as dtc
 import dpctl.tensor._tensor_impl as dti
@@ -48,6 +51,7 @@
     "DPNPI0",
     "DPNPAngle",
     "DPNPBinaryFunc",
+    "DPNPBinaryFuncOutKw",
     "DPNPFix",
     "DPNPImag",
     "DPNPReal",
@@ -729,6 +733,22 @@ def outer(
         )
 
 
+class DPNPBinaryFuncOutKw(DPNPBinaryFunc):
+    """DPNPBinaryFunc that deprecates positional `out` argument."""
+
+    @wraps(DPNPBinaryFunc.__call__)
+    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        if len(args) > self.nin:
+            warnings.warn(
+                "Passing more than 2 positional arguments is deprecated. "
+                "If you meant to use the third argument as an output, "
+                "use the `out` keyword argument instead.",
+                DeprecationWarning,
+                stacklevel=2,
+            )
+        return super().__call__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+
 class DPNPAngle(DPNPUnaryFunc):
     """Class that implements dpnp.angle unary element-wise functions."""
 

dpnp/dpnp_iface_mathematical.py

@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
     DPNPI0,
     DPNPAngle,
     DPNPBinaryFunc,
+    DPNPBinaryFuncOutKw,
     DPNPFix,
     DPNPImag,
     DPNPReal,
@@ -3202,6 +3203,16 @@ def interp(x, xp, fp, left=None, right=None, period=None):
 
     Default: ``"K"``.
 
+Warning
+-------
+Passing more than 2 positional arguments is deprecated.
+If you meant to use the third argument as an output,
+use the `out` keyword argument instead.
+
+For example, ``dpnp.maximum(a, b, c)`` will emit a ``DeprecationWarning``.
+Always pass the output array as the keyword argument instead, that is
+``dpnp.maximum(a, b, out=c)``.
+
 Returns
 -------
 out : dpnp.ndarray
@@ -3255,7 +3266,7 @@ def interp(x, xp, fp, left=None, right=None, period=None):
 
 """
 
-maximum = DPNPBinaryFunc(
+maximum = DPNPBinaryFuncOutKw(
     "maximum",
     ti._maximum_result_type,
     ti._maximum,
@@ -3297,6 +3308,16 @@ def interp(x, xp, fp, left=None, right=None, period=None):
     An array containing the element-wise minima. The data type of
     the returned array is determined by the Type Promotion Rules.
 
+Warning
+-------
+Passing more than 2 positional arguments is deprecated.
+If you meant to use the third argument as an output,
+use the `out` keyword argument instead.
+
+For example, ``dpnp.minimum(a, b, c)`` will emit a ``DeprecationWarning``.
+Always pass the output array as the keyword argument instead, that is
+``dpnp.minimum(a, b, out=c)``.
+
 Limitations
 -----------
 Parameters `where` and `subok` are supported with their default values.
@@ -3343,7 +3364,7 @@ def interp(x, xp, fp, left=None, right=None, period=None):
 array(-inf)
 """
 
-minimum = DPNPBinaryFunc(
+minimum = DPNPBinaryFuncOutKw(
     "minimum",
     ti._minimum_result_type,
     ti._minimum,

dpnp/tests/test_binary_ufuncs.py

@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ def test_invalid_shape(self, func, shape):
         with pytest.raises(ValueError):
             getattr(dpnp, func)(a, b, out=out)
 
+    @pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore::DeprecationWarning")
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("xp", [dpnp, numpy])
     @pytest.mark.parametrize(
         "out",

dpnp/tests/test_mathematical.py

@@ -2910,3 +2910,15 @@ def test_elemenwise_outer_scalar():
     expected = dpnp.add.outer(x, y)
     result = dpnp.add.outer(x, s)
     assert dpnp.allclose(result, expected)
+
+
+@testing.with_requires("numpy>=2.4")
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("xp", [dpnp, numpy])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("func", ["minimum", "maximum"])
+def test_minimum_maximum_out_deprecated(xp, func):
+    a = xp.array([1, 3, 2])
+    b = xp.array([2, 2, 2])
+    out = xp.empty_like(a)
+
+    with pytest.warns(DeprecationWarning, match="deprecated"):
+        _ = getattr(xp, func)(a, b, out)

dpnp/tests/test_sycl_queue.py

@@ -1025,7 +1025,10 @@ def test_invalid_stream(self, stream):
         "asarray_chkfinite",
         "asanyarray",
         "ascontiguousarray",
-        "asfarray",
+        pytest.param(
+            "asfarray",
+            marks=pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore::DeprecationWarning"),
+        ),
         "asfortranarray",
     ],
 )

dpnp/tests/test_usm_type.py

@@ -286,7 +286,10 @@ def test_copy_operation(usm_type):
         "asarray_chkfinite",
         "asanyarray",
         "ascontiguousarray",
-        "asfarray",
+        pytest.param(
+            "asfarray",
+            marks=pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore::DeprecationWarning"),
+        ),
         "asfortranarray",
     ],
 )