Thank you both for the extremely thorough and helpful information! Just as
an additional note to whoever needs it, in terms of fipy versions and the
need to import numerix, 2.2 works the same as 3.0.

Cheers,
Yun


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Daniel Wheeler
<[email protected]>wrote:

>
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Yun Tao <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This may be a trivial question but I have a hard time finding an
>> explanation:
>>
>> I wrote a series of elementary FiPy script (variants on the basic
>> diffusion examples). For a long time, they run smoothly. However, after
>> working with the latest unofficial FiPy release (operated under a different
>> directory) for a while, all the old scripts no longer recognize functions
>> like "exp" and "pi" unless I explicitly append "from numpy import *" at the
>> beginning.
>
>
> You're right. You need to use numerix now.
>
> In [1]: import fipy
>
> In [2]: fipy.__version__
> Out[2]: '3.0-dev5145'
>
> In [3]: from fipy import sin
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
> /users/wd15/<ipython-input-3-df5df19bd8a5> in <module>()
> ----> 1 from fipy import sin
>
> ImportError: cannot import name sin
>
> In [4]: from fipy import numerix
>
> In [5]: numerix.sin
> Out[5]: <ufunc 'sin'>
>
> Older versions of fipy imported numerix functions directly.
>
> n [1]: from fipy import sin
>
> In [2]: sin
> Out[2]: <function sin at 0x1e5cde8>
>
> In [3]: import fipy
>
> In [4]: fipy.__version__
> Out[4]: '2.1.3'
>
> I understand you're pain on this. We felt the need to remove the heavy
> namespace pollution that occurs when using "from fipy import *". It imports
> the whole of numpy! We were doing a major version change so we thought that
> this was the best time to do it. Try puting "from fipy.tools.numerix import
> *" at the top of your scripts and they should work.
>
> Cheers
>
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> Daniel Wheeler
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