Stefan van der Walt <ste...@sun.ac.za> writes: > On 2014-10-27 15:26:58, D. Michael McFarland <dm...@dmmcf.net> wrote: >> What I would like to ask about is the situation this illustrates, where >> both NumPy and SciPy provide similar functionality (sometimes identical, >> to judge by the documentation). Is there some guidance on which is to >> be preferred? > > I'm not sure if you've received an answer to your question so far. My > advice: use the SciPy functions. SciPy is often built on more extensive > Fortran libraries not available during NumPy compilation, and I am not > aware of any cases where a function in NumPy is faster or more extensive > than the equivalent in SciPy.
The whole thread has been interesting reading (now that I've finally come back to it...got busy for a few days), but this is the sort of answer I was hoping for. Thank you. Best, Michael _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
