Anne Archibald wrote: > The reason numpy and scipy don't do this is largely historical - > Numeric had a nearly flat namespace,
I know. Despite namespaces being "one honking great idea", it seems to have taken a while to catch on. > Since spatial is new, though, it should be pretty good about not > inflating your imports unnecessarily. well, maybe -- it seems to import everything when you do an import scipy.spatial Since kdtree is about all that's there, it's not a big deal, but much like the polynomial namespace, if we envision a day when there may be all sorts of lovely spatial indexing options in there, maybe it shouldn't bring them all into the "spatial" namespace. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
