Hi all, Last night I put together some simple financial functions based on the basic ones available in Excel (and on a financial calculator). It seems to me that NumPy ought to have these basic functions.
There may be some disagreement about what to call them and what the interface should be. I've stuck with the Excel standard names and functionality because most of the people that will use these in the future, I expect will have seen them from Excel and it minimizes the impedance mismatch to have them be similarly named. The interface is also similar to the IMSL libraries. However, if clearly better interfaces can be discovered, then we could change it. For now, the functions are not imported into the numpy namespace but live in numpy.lib.financial I could see a future scipy module containing much, much more. Comments and improvement suggestions welcome. We are a week away from release of NumPy 1.0.5, and hopefully we can agree before then. Best regards, -Travis O. _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
