Re: [Numpy-discussion] Which NumPy/Numpy/numpy spelling?

2016-08-29 Thread Benjamin Root
There was similar discussion almost two years ago with respect to capitalization of matplotlib in prose. Most of the time, it was lower-case in our documentation, but then the question was if it should be upper-case at the beginning of the sentence... or should it always be upper-cased like a prope

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Which NumPy/Numpy/numpy spelling?

2016-08-29 Thread josef . pktd
https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-user/2010-June/025756.html "NumPy and SciPy to refer to the projects. numpy and scipy to refer to the packages, specifically. When in doubt, use the former." I thought there was also another discussion about capital letters, but I don't find it. Josef On

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Which NumPy/Numpy/numpy spelling?

2016-08-29 Thread Bartosz Telenczuk
Hi, I would not mind any choice as long as it's consistent. I agree that using all-lowercase spelling may avoid some common errors. However, PEP8 requires all module/package names to be lower case [1]. If we force the name of the library and the corresponding package to be the same, all Python l

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Which NumPy/Numpy/numpy spelling?

2016-08-29 Thread Phil Hodge
On 08/29/2016 07:43 AM, m...@telenczuk.pl wrote: What is the official spelling of NumPy/Numpy/numpy? IMHO it should be written numpy, because ... >>> import NumPy Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ImportError: No module named NumPy >>> import Numpy Traceback (most recen

[Numpy-discussion] Which NumPy/Numpy/numpy spelling?

2016-08-29 Thread mail
Hi all, What is the official spelling of NumPy/Numpy/numpy? The documentation is not consistent and it mixes both NumPy and Numpy. For example, the reference manual uses both spellings in the introduction paragraph (http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/): "This reference manual detai