On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 02:53:42PM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Paul Kienzle wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 12:34:44PM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote:
> >> Out of 491 names in the numpy namespace, I found 26 that would commonly
> >> be found in math expressions.
>
> > The C99 math/complex headers define a number of symbols.
>
> Sure, but you don't need all of those. My idea was thus:
>
> "Namespaces are one honking great idea"
>
> but they are kind of ugly inside math expressions. But:
>
> "Practicality beats purity"
>
> so I think it does make sense to bring the common names that show up in
> math expressions into the main namespace. Not all the handy little names
> ( like isnan, zeros, linspace, etc.) only the ones that show up in the
> depths of nested math expressions, so that we can write code that looks
> like math. That's how I came up with my personal list of 26.
>
> This is probably best just done by each individual according to his/her
> taste.
That's what I'm trying to get away from. I want to be able to write
the contains() function in patch.py and just use the normal math where
it makes sense to use normal math.
I suppose one approach is to go through all of mpl, find what is being
imported with what frequency, and build the list based on that.
Maybe I will get a chance this weekend. Right now I have to go back to
the "matplotlib svn doesn't build on windows" problem.
- Paul
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