Re: Issue 3439 in sympy: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot.

2012-10-14 Thread sympy
Comment #12 on issue 3439 by asmeu...@gmail.com: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot. http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3439 Well if you want, you can raise the issue on the list, but I doubt many will disagree with me. Definitely importing matplotlib is a problem, but

Re: Issue 3439 in sympy: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot.

2012-10-14 Thread sympy
Comment #11 on issue 3439 by jenshnie...@gmail.com: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot. http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3439 The issue that I was originally trying to raise is that: Sorry, I remembered something that is clearly not right. You in general do a better jo

Re: Issue 3439 in sympy: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot.

2012-10-14 Thread sympy
Comment #10 on issue 3439 by asmeu...@gmail.com: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot. http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3439 Ok perhaps your are right. Perhaps it is more an issue with various stack overflow questions ect. Yes, we care very much about this, so that if

Re: Issue 3439 in sympy: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot.

2012-10-14 Thread sympy
Comment #9 on issue 3439 by jenshnie...@gmail.com: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot. http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3439 Ok perhaps your are right. Perhaps it is more an issue with various stack overflow questions ect. I just looked into the notebooks that you have

Re: Issue 3439 in sympy: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot.

2012-10-14 Thread sympy
Comment #8 on issue 3439 by asmeu...@gmail.com: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot. http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3439 Can you be more specific about what examples you are talking about? All of the docstring examples have explicit imports at the top, and the same w

Re: Issue 3439 in sympy: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot.

2012-10-14 Thread sympy
Comment #7 on issue 3439 by jenshnie...@gmail.com: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot. http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3439 I perfectly well know what namespaces are thanks. The problem is that most of your examples are written with the default assumption that isympy

Re: Issue 3439 in sympy: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot.

2012-10-14 Thread sympy
Comment #6 on issue 3439 by asmeu...@gmail.com: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot. http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3439 I think perhaps your real issue here is "pylab and isympy don't mix", meaning that they both import the same names. The fix for the user (and to

Re: Issue 3439 in sympy: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot.

2012-10-14 Thread sympy
Comment #5 on issue 3439 by asmeu...@gmail.com: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot. http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3439 Scripts should *never* use implicit imports, or pylab for that matter. Pylab and isympy are intended for interactive use only. Python has a mech

Re: Issue 3439 in sympy: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot.

2012-10-14 Thread sympy
Comment #4 on issue 3439 by jenshnie...@gmail.com: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot. http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3439 Furthermore the most natural way of activating an interactive session in Ipython is to use pylab. And there you have the name clash almost una

Re: Issue 3439 in sympy: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot.

2012-10-14 Thread sympy
Comment #3 on issue 3439 by jenshnie...@gmail.com: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot. http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3439 I'm sorry that you chose to pretend that there is not an issue. I think that the importing into global name spaces is one of the biggest issues

Re: Issue 3439 in sympy: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot.

2012-10-14 Thread sympy
Updates: Status: WontFix Comment #2 on issue 3439 by asmeu...@gmail.com: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot. http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3439 Keeping our names disjoint from numpy's is not a design decision of SymPy. We have a hard enough time not collidin

Re: Issue 3439 in sympy: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot.

2012-10-14 Thread sympy
Comment #1 on issue 3439 by jenshnie...@gmail.com: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot. http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3439 See for instance https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/2488 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sy

Issue 3439 in sympy: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot.

2012-10-14 Thread sympy
Status: New Owner: Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium New issue 3439 by jenshnie...@gmail.com: Don't pollute global namaespace with plot. http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3439 Running from sympy import * as is the default in isympy results in sympys plot function being im