Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread A. M. Archibald
On 05/10/06, Travis Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think a hybrid for weave / f2py / ctypes that allows "inlining in > multiple languages" as well as automatic extension module generation for > "already-written" code is in order. It might make sense to also include SWIG (since that seems

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread Travis Oliphant
A. M. Archibald wrote: >On 05/10/06, Greg Willden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>On 10/5/06, Travis Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Perhaps that is the best way to move forward along with the work on a >>>"pylab" super-package. >>> >>> >>That is exactly what I want. >>

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread Christopher Barker
The situation is confusing, we all know that, and we all want to move toward a better way. Key to that is that SciPy needs to be easier to build and install -- that's happening, but I don't know that it's there yet. Maybe it can be built on Fedora Core 4 now, but last I tried it couldn't be. A

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread Albert Strasheim
Hello all Some comments from a Windows user's perspective. On Thu, 05 Oct 2006, Travis Oliphant wrote: > John Hunter wrote: > > >>"Robert" == Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >Robert> IMO, I'd rather see this and similar functions go into > >Robert> scipy. New functions

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread A. M. Archibald
On 05/10/06, Greg Willden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/5/06, Travis Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps that is the best way to move forward along with the work on a > > "pylab" super-package. > > That is exactly what I want. What is unsatisfactory about installing numpy+scipy+ma

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread Alan G Isaac
> On 10/5/06, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would be nice to have as much as possible in the most >> widely distributed package IMO. On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Greg Willden apparently wrote: > That is a much better policy in my view. A user's perspective: Well yes, all else equal, I

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread Robert Kern
Greg Willden wrote: > On 10/5/06, *Robert Kern* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Greg Willden wrote: > > > From my view as a newbie to numpy/scipy/matplotlib it isn't > clear where > > I should look for what functionality. Matplotlib plots the >

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread Greg Willden
On 10/5/06, Travis Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps that is the best way to move forward along with the work on a"pylab" super-package.That is exactly what I want.  In the end I want a nice collection of functions, logically organized, that let me analyze/filter/plot etc. etc. etc. The k

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread Greg Willden
On 10/5/06, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greg Willden wrote:>  From my view as a newbie to numpy/scipy/matplotlib it isn't clear where> I should look for what functionality.  Matplotlib plots the spectrogram> but it only supports two or three window functions.  Numpy supports 4 or > 5 win

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread Travis Oliphant
John Hunter wrote: >>"Robert" == Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > >Robert> IMO, I'd rather see this and similar functions go into >Robert> scipy. New functions that apply semantics to arrays (in >Robert> this case, treating them as time series), I

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread A. M. Archibald
On 05/10/06, Greg Willden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is a much better policy in my view. > > I (gently) encourage this group (Travis?) to make this the policy for > Numpy/Scipy. > > From my view as a newbie to numpy/scipy/matplotlib it isn't clear where I > should look for what functionalit

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread Robert Kern
Greg Willden wrote: > From my view as a newbie to numpy/scipy/matplotlib it isn't clear where > I should look for what functionality. Matplotlib plots the spectrogram > but it only supports two or three window functions. Numpy supports 4 or > 5 window functions and Scipy apparently supports

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread Greg Willden
On 10/5/06, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I prefer Perry's longstanding suggestion: things that do not add todistribution complexity should go into numpy.  If it compiles aseasily as numpy itself, it should go into numpy where sensible.  Itremains a fact of life that numpy gets a wider dis

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread John Hunter
> "Robert" == Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> IMO, I'd rather see this and similar functions go into Robert> scipy. New functions that apply semantics to arrays (in Robert> this case, treating them as time series), I think should Robert> go into scipy. New funct

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread Greg Willden
On 10/5/06, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IMO, I'd rather see this and similar functions go into scipy. New functions thatapply semantics to arrays (in this case, treating them as time series), I thinkshould go into scipy. New functions that treat arrays simply as arrays and are generally

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread Robert Kern
Greg Willden wrote: > On 10/4/06, *Travis Oliphant* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Great contribution. Thanks a bunch. I think this will probably go into > the scipy package, though. There is already a lot of windows available > in the scipy.signal.wind

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread Greg Willden
On 10/4/06, Travis Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Great contribution.  Thanks a bunch.  I think this will probably go intothe scipy package, though.  There is already a lot of windows availablein the scipy.signal.window function.BTW.  Is there some sort of clear statement about what goes in Sc

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-05 Thread Greg Willden
On 10/4/06, Travis Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not really, because these functions were in *both* Numeric andnumarray.  That's the trouble.And the multiple scipy packages situation needs more discussion Weare all ears...Well I started here because I have been using the Matplotlib packag

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-04 Thread Travis Oliphant
Sebastian Haase wrote: >If scipy is going to be installable as separate sub-packages maybe >all window functions can be moved to scipy ;-) > >In other words, if the ones in numpy are there only for "historical >reasons" maybe they should be cleaned out before the 1.0 release. >All arguments seem

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-04 Thread Sebastian Haase
Travis Oliphant wrote: > Greg Willden wrote: > >> Hello All, >> I introduced myself on the Scipy list and I have a feeling that most >> of the subscribers here are also on Scipy-devel. Anyway I just >> submitted my first patch to numpy (ticket #316). I added the >> blackman-harris, Nuttall an

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-04 Thread Travis Oliphant
Greg Willden wrote: > Hello All, > I introduced myself on the Scipy list and I have a feeling that most > of the subscribers here are also on Scipy-devel. Anyway I just > submitted my first patch to numpy (ticket #316). I added the > blackman-harris, Nuttall and Flat Top windowing functions a

[Numpy-discussion] Hello and my first patch

2006-10-04 Thread Greg Willden
Hello All,I introduced myself on the Scipy list and I have a feeling that most of the subscribers here are also on Scipy-devel.  Anyway I just submitted my first patch to numpy (ticket #316).  I added the blackman-harris, Nuttall and Flat Top windowing functions and added "See also" sections to the