Re: [Numpy-discussion] Deprecation of financial routines

2013-09-02 Thread Juan Luis Cano
[snip] On 08/19/2013 05:06 PM, Joe Harrington wrote: A reorg that would bring us to a very heirarchical structure would be disruptive to existing code. Yet, there are maintenance and startup speed arguments in favor of a heirarchy. However we resolve it, I don't know that singling out the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Deprecation of financial routines

2013-08-20 Thread Stéfan van der Walt
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Skipper Seabold jsseab...@gmail.com wrote: +1 on scipy.finance / scipy.financial (or even numpy.finance / numpy.financial) Are there no external libraries that deal with these things? If they exist, we can deprecate with two releases pointing to that external

[Numpy-discussion] Deprecation of financial routines

2013-08-19 Thread Juan Luis Cano
As now master is open for 1.9, following the discussion opened here https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/2880 it was suggested that we deprecate and eventually remove the financial functions in NumPy, because they pollute the main namespace and some are unimplemented. We could put them in a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Deprecation of financial routines

2013-08-19 Thread David Cournapeau
I am +1 as well, I don't think they should have been included in the first place. The deprecation should happen after a separate package has been made available, in case some people depend on it. On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Juan Luis Cano juanlu...@gmail.com wrote: As now master is open

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Deprecation of financial routines

2013-08-19 Thread Alan G Isaac
On 8/19/2013 2:37 AM, Juan Luis Cano wrote: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/2880 it was suggested that we deprecate and eventually remove the financial functions in NumPy It seems that this summary is a bit one-sided. There was also a suggestion to move these into numpy.financial,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Deprecation of financial routines

2013-08-19 Thread Juan Luis Cano
[clip] On 08/19/2013 01:34 PM, Alan G Isaac wrote: On 8/19/2013 2:37 AM, Juan Luis Cano wrote: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/2880 it was suggested that we deprecate and eventually remove the financial functions in NumPy It seems that this summary is a bit one-sided. There was also

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Deprecation of financial routines

2013-08-19 Thread Cera, Tim
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Juan Luis Cano juanlu...@gmail.com wrote: As now master is open for 1.9, following the discussion opened here https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/2880 it was suggested that we deprecate and eventually remove the financial functions in NumPy, because they

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Deprecation of financial routines

2013-08-19 Thread Skipper Seabold
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Cera, Tim t...@cerazone.net wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Juan Luis Cano juanlu...@gmail.com wrote: As now master is open for 1.9, following the discussion opened here https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/2880 it was suggested that we

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Deprecation of financial routines

2013-08-19 Thread josef . pktd
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Skipper Seabold jsseab...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Cera, Tim t...@cerazone.net wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Juan Luis Cano juanlu...@gmail.com wrote: As now master is open for 1.9, following the discussion opened here

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Deprecation of financial routines

2013-08-19 Thread Joe Harrington
On 8/19/2013 2:37 AM, Juan Luis Cano wrote: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/2880 it was suggested that we deprecate and eventually remove the financial functions in NumPy IDL has financial functions. Matlab has financial functions. Financial functions are something that a subset of