Hi Travis, This sounds of course very interesting, but could you elaborate on the reasoning why this should not rather be "only" in SciPy !? I thought many people think that numpy was already too crowded and should concentrate mostly on being a basic array handling facility.
I'm sure you have a good reason for putting these into numpy. Do you have a list of the new functions ? Wiki page ? And once more, thanks for all your great work on numpy. I'm now even trying to make a career out of using numpy for microscopy image analysis. - Sebastian Haase On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Travis E. Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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
