Keith Goodman wrote: > I'd rather not pull in a scipy dependency for one function if there is > a numpy alternative. I think it is funny that you picked up on my > brief mention of scipy and called it unreasonable. > (I didn't follow this exact discussion, arguing from general principles here about SciPy dependencies.) Try to look at it this way:
NumPy may solve almost all your needs, and you only need, say, 0.1% of SciPy. Assume, then, that the same statement is true about n other people. The problem then is that the 0.1% that each person needs from SciPy does not typically overlap. So as n grows larger, and assuming that everyone use the same logic that you use, the amount of SciPy stuff that must be reimplemented on the NumPy discussion mailing list could become quite large. (Besides, SciPy is open source, so you can always copy & paste the function from it if you only need one trivial bit of it. Not that I recommend doing that, but it's still better than reimplementing it yourself. Unless you're doing it for the learning experience of course.) Dag Sverre _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
