John, In your list, "load" is duplicated.
It would be nice if numpy.rank could be deprecated, since it seems to be an alias for ndim (which is more descriptive and less ambiguous). We could avoid the name clash by using "matrixrank" for the mlab version. I suggest that for every name that conflicts with a numpy name, the docstring should make this explicit. On a more strategic note: what do you see as the future of mlab, and its place in pylab? Should mlab contain every neat function we can think of, and if so, should all of these be exposed in the pylab namespace? Do we have or need any quality-control standards for these functions? Is there a point in exposing more of mlab now than we have in the past? Probably so, but we might want to be conservative about it. I am copying this to the devel list; it seems worth wider exposure. Eric John Hunter wrote: > On Nov 9, 2007 12:09 AM, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> from pyplot import * >>> from matplotlib.mlab import * >> for mlab I would be inclined to use an explicit list for the sake of >> documentation and clarity, if nothing else. > > One of my colleagues using svn just got bitten because she was using > pylab load and save, which have slightly different semantics than > numpy's. In particular, we have an optional converter dictionary. It > would be nice to reconcile these (Travis has already borrowed a fair > amount from mlab which is why so many funcs are deprecated). > > Here is my candidate list, which I will commit shortly but let me know > if you have a problem with any of it: > > from matplotlib.mlab import load, window_hanning, window_none, conv, > detrend, demean, \ > detrend_mean, detrend_none, detrend_linear, entropy, normpdf, levypdf, \ > find, longest_contiguous_ones, longest_ones, prepca, prctile, > prctile_rank, \ > center_matrix, rk4, bivariate_normal, get_xyz_where, > get_sparse_matrix, dist, \ > dist_point_to_segment, segments_intersect, fftsurr, liaupunov, movavg, \ > save, load, slopes, stineman_interp, inside_poly, poly_below, > poly_between, exp_safe, \ > amap, rms_flat, l1norm, l2norm, norm_flat, frange, > diagonal_matrix, identity, \ > base_repr, binary_repr, log2, ispower2, fromfunction_kw, rem, > norm, orth, rank, sqrtm,\ > mfuncC, approx_real, rec_append_field, rec_drop_fields, rec_join, > csv2rec, rec2csv ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
