Re: [Matplotlib-users] numpy.power vs pylab.power

2012-11-15 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Paul Hobson wrote: > Hey Will, > > As a user, all I can tell you is that pylab is there for convenience when: > 1) quickly and interactively exploring some new data > or > 2) making the switch over from matlab or some other numerical analysis > framework. > > In

Re: [Matplotlib-users] numpy.power vs pylab.power

2012-11-15 Thread Paul Hobson
Hey Will, As a user, all I can tell you is that pylab is there for convenience when: 1) quickly and interactively exploring some new data or 2) making the switch over from matlab or some other numerical analysis framework. In general, if you're doing some serious work -- especially work that you

[Matplotlib-users] numpy.power vs pylab.power

2012-11-15 Thread Will Furnass
On my machine these are rather confusingly different functions, with the latter corresponding to numpy.random.power. I appreciate that pylab imports everything from both the numpy and numpy.random modules but wouldn't it make sense if pylab.power were the oft-used power function rather than a mean