On Thursday, October 14, 2021, Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz < jfoxrabinov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I second that reinstating such a list would be extremely useful. My issue > has been with the polynomial package, but the end result is the same. > There's a mostly relevant issue: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/19420 András > > > - Joe > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 12:45 Melissa Mendonça <meliss...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Paul, >> >> Do you think having a page with the flat list of routines back, in >> addition to the explanations, would solve this? >> >> - Melissa >> >> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 1:34 PM Paul M. <pmma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> The documentation of Numpy's submodules used to have a fairly standard >>> structure as shown here in the 1.16 documentation: >>> >>> https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-1.16.1/reference/routines.random.html >>> >>> Now the same page in the API documentation looks like this: >>> >>> https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/random/index.html >>> >>> While I appreciate the expository text in the new documentation about >>> how the generators work, this new version is much less useful as a >>> reference to the API. It seems like it might fit better in the user manual >>> rather than the API reference. >>> >>> From my perspective it seems like the new version of the documentation >>> is harder to navigate in terms of finding information quickly (more >>> scrolling, harder to get a bird's eye view of functions in various >>> submodules, etc). >>> >>> Has anyone else had a similar reaction to the changes? I teach a couple >>> of courses in scientific computing and bioinformatics and my students seem >>> to also struggle to get a sense of what the different modules offer based >>> on the new version of the documentation. For now, I'm referring them to the >>> old (1.70) reference manuals as a better way to get acquainted with the >>> libraries. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Paul Magwene >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ >>> Member address: meliss...@gmail.com >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ >> Member address: jfoxrabinov...@gmail.com >> >
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