Re: [Matplotlib-users] confusion about what part of numpy pylab imports

2007-04-25 Thread Mark Bakker
Well, if I can cast a vote, it would make a lot of sense if pylab functions do the same thing as numpy functions. Right now it is exceedingly confusing when I teach, that zeros() could be integers or floats. An rc parameter where we would import straight from numpy would be most excellent. Can't w

Re: [Matplotlib-users] confusion about what part of numpy pylab imports

2007-04-24 Thread Eric Firing
Gary Ruben wrote: > Hi Mark, > this thread may help: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/13399/focus=13421 > > Essentially, pylab uses a compatibility layer to ease the task of > supporting the three array packages - currently this uses the Numeric > version of the ones a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] confusion about what part of numpy pylab imports

2007-04-24 Thread Gary Ruben
Hi Mark, this thread may help: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/13399/focus=13421 Essentially, pylab uses a compatibility layer to ease the task of supporting the three array packages - currently this uses the Numeric version of the ones and zeros functions giving the be

Re: [Matplotlib-users] confusion about what part of numpy pylab imports

2007-04-24 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
"Mark Bakker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can this be fixed? Any explanation how this happens? Pylab just > imports part of numpy, doesn't it? It imports numerix, a compatibility layer for numeric, numarray and numpy. I think the plan is to remove numerix soon and just use numpy, but in the mea

[Matplotlib-users] confusion about what part of numpy pylab imports

2007-04-24 Thread Mark Bakker
Hello list - I am confused about the part of numpy that pylab imports. Apparently, pylab imports 'zeros', but not the 'zeros' from numpy, as it returns integers by default, rather than floats. The same holds for 'ones' and 'empty'. Example: from pylab import * zeros(3) array([0, 0, 0]) from nu