Tom Holroyd (NIH/NIMH) [E] wrote:
> 
> Eric Firing wrote:
>> Similarly, after dealing with mlab, I would like to simplify pylab. 
>> Right now, we have a horrible tangle of namespaces in pylab.  Cleaning 
>> this up will potentially break user code; if a numpy function formerly 
>> could be referenced with three different names and we knock that down to 
>> one, code using the other two will not work.  My guess is that in 
>> practice the amount of breakage will be *very* small and easy for users 
>> to deal with.
> 
> I for one will be happy to change my code; numerical stuff in numpy, plotting 
> stuff in pylab (or pyplot?), though some things like linspace() may be hard 
> to loose; that's really an mlab function and I can import mlab. It probably 
> makes more sense.

I'm not sure if linspace was just a bad example, but it does exist
within numpy itself.

Ryan

-- 
Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma

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