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I'm pleased to announce the first release of Patsy, a Python package for describing statistical models and building design matrices using "formulas". Patsy's formulas are inspired by and largely compatible with those used in R. Patsy makes it easy to quickly try different models and work with categorical data and interactions. (Note: Patsy was originally known as "Charlton" during development. Long story.) Patsy can be used directly by users to generate model matrices for passing to other libraries, or used by those libraries to offer a high-level formula interface. Patsy's goal is to become the standard format used by different Python statistical packages for specifying models, just as formulas are the standard interface used by R packages. While this is an initial release, we already have robust test coverage (>98% statement coverage), comprehensive documentation, and a number of advanced features. (We even correctly handle a few corner cases that R itself gets wrong.) For more information, see: Overview: http://patsy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/overview.html Quickstart: http://patsy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quickstart.html How to integrate it into your library: http://patsy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/library-developers.html Downloads: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/patsy/ Source: https://github.com/pydata/patsy Share and enjoy, -n _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
