How to make sqrt(-1) be 1j
Travis Oliphant
oliphant.travis at ieee.org
Fri Oct 13 02:47:40 EDT 2006
Bill Baxter wrote:
> On 10/13/06, Tim Hochberg <tim.hochberg at ieee.org> wrote:
>
>> For this sort of thing, I
>> would just make a new module to pull together the function I want and
>> use that instead. It's then easy to explain that this new module bbeconf
>> (Bill Baxter's Excellent Collection Of Numeric Functions) is actually an
>> amalgamation of stuff from multiple sources.
>>
>> # bbeconf.py
>> from numpy import *
>> fromnumpy.scimath import sqrt
>> # possibly some other stuff to correctly handle subpackages...
>>
>
> That does sound like a good way to do it.
> Then you just tell your users to import 'eduNumpy' rather than numpy,
> and you're good to go.
> Added that suggestion to http://www.scipy.org/NegativeSquareRoot
>
> I'd like to ask one basic Python question related my previous
> suggestion of doing things like "numpy.sqrt = numpy.lib.scimath.sqrt":
> In python does that make it so that any module importing numpy in the
> same program will now see the altered sqrt function? E.g. in my
> program I do "import A,B". Module A alters numpy.sqrt. Does that
> also modify how module B sees numpy.sqrt?
>
> If so then that's a very good reason not to do it that way.
>
> I've heard people using the term "monkey-patch" before. Is that what that is?
>
> --bb
>
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