[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I installed SciPy and NumPy (0.9.5, because 0.9.6 does not work with > the current version of SciPy), and had some teething troubles. I looked > around for help and observed that the tutorial is dated October 2004, > and is not as thorough as Python's documentation. Is there an > alternative source of information that lists all the functions and > their usage?
http://www.scipy.org/doc/api_docs/ > I tried using scipy.info to get information on the std function in the > stats libary, and ran into the following problem. > >>>>x = [1, 2, 3, 4] >>>>import scipy >>>>scipy.std(x) > > 1.2909944487358056 > >>>>scipy.info(std) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in -toplevel- > scipy.info(std) > NameError: name 'std' is not defined You would need to do scipy.info(scipy.std) >>>>scipy.info(stats) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#7>", line 1, in -toplevel- > scipy.info(stats) > NameError: name 'stats' is not defined > >>>>scipy.info(stats.std) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#11>", line 1, in -toplevel- > scipy.info(stats.std) > NameError: name 'stats' is not defined > > However, If I redo the import as follows I can get help on std: > >>>>from scipy import * >>>>info(std) > > std(a, axis=0, dtype=None) > > None > > Question: why did it work this time and not on my first attempt? Because you did a different kind of import on the second attempt. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
