On Monday, July 25, 2011, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 03:52:48PM -0500, Mark Wiebe wrote: >> Can't use numpy.datetime, since that conflicts with Python's datetime >> library, especially in pylab. > > I don't understand that: isn't the point of namespaces to avoid those > naming conflicts. To me that's just like saying that numpy.sum shouldn't > be named sum because it would conflict with the sum builtin. > > My 2 euro cents (a endangered currency) > > Gael >
I think the problem is that numpy's datetime might not be a drop-in replacement for python's datetime. For operations in python where one would use python's sum, numpy's sum would produce effectively identical results. We even have a few bug reports in our tracker for the use of all and any being ever-so-slightly different than python's, and it can cause some confusion in pylab mode. Admittedly, though, I can't come up with a better name, either. My two cents (also endangered)... Ben Root
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