On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Ronan Lamy <ronan.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le jeudi 11 novembre 2010 à 12:08 -0800, Ondrej Certik a écrit : >> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Ronan Lamy <ronan.l...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > Running 'python bin/sympy_time.py', I realised that importing sympy >> > pulls in a lot of stuff that are irrelevant to an end user, like pdb, >> > doctest or py.test. Fixing this simply requires removing the imports of >> > runtests and pytest from sympy/utilities/__init.py and importing those >> > modules explicitly where they are required. >> >> This should be done. > > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/30 > > >> > >> > What do you think? >> >> I think that the main "sympy" module should provide some reasonable >> set of tools, right away. Maybe we can remove some things from the >> global namespace into modules. >> > +1 > >> For specialized things, one should import things explicitly. For >> example the physics quantum code needs to be imported from >> sympy.physics.hydrogen and so on. >> >> Ondrej >> > There a few rather self-contained subpackages that shouldn't be > imported, then. These are physics, geometry and galgebra. It seems more > difficult to compartmentise all the mathematical stuff (e.g. N-theory > might seem to be an advanced and specialised topic but we certainly need > primality testing everywhere). >
It sounds like we need one of those packages that draws an interrelationship graph of all the modules. Aaron Meurer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sy...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
