There was similar discussion almost two years ago with respect to capitalization of matplotlib in prose. Most of the time, it was lower-case in our documentation, but then the question was if it should be upper-case at the beginning of the sentence... or should it always be upper-cased like a proper noun. I don't think a clear consensus was reached, but I ended up treating it as a proper noun in my book.
I am also pretty sure I used "NumPy" in most places, even for "NumPy arrays", which still looks weird to me when I go back over my book. Ben Root On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 12:56 PM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-user/2010-June/025756.html > > "NumPy and SciPy to refer to the projects. numpy and scipy to refer to > the packages, specifically. When in doubt, use the former." > > I thought there was also another discussion about capital letters, but > I don't find it. > > Josef > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Bartosz Telenczuk <m...@telenczuk.pl> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would not mind any choice as long as it's consistent. > > > > I agree that using all-lowercase spelling may avoid some common errors. > However, > > PEP8 requires all module/package names to be lower case [1]. If we > force the > > name of the library and the corresponding package to be the same, all > Python > > libraries would be named in lowercase. This would not be the best choice > for > > libraries, which have multi-component names (like NumPy = Numerical > Python). > > > > Note also that both the Wikipedia page [2] and the official NumPy logo > [3] use > > "NumPy" spelling. > > > > Some other popular [4] libraries use similar dichotomies: > > > > - Django - import django > > - Cython - import cython > > - PyYAML - import yaml > > - scikit-learn - import sklearn > > > > On the other hand all standard Python libraries are lower-case named. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bartosz > > > > [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#package-and-module-names > > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NumPy > > [3] http://www.numpy.org/_static/numpy_logo.png > > [4] http://pypi-ranking.info/alltime > > > >> On 08/29/2016 07:43 AM, m...@telenczuk.pl wrote: > >> > What is the official spelling of NumPy/Numpy/numpy? > >> > >> IMHO it should be written numpy, because ... > >> > >> >>> import NumPy > >> Traceback (most recent call last): > >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > >> ImportError: No module named NumPy > >> >>> import Numpy > >> Traceback (most recent call last): > >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > >> ImportError: No module named Numpy > >> >>> import numpy > >> >>> > >> > >> Phil > >> _______________________________________________ > >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list > >> NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > >> https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > > https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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