[SciPy-dev] DCT naming conventions ?

[David Cournapeau]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Tom Grydeland <tom.grydeland at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:18 PM, David Cournapeau
> <david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>    I needed DCT transforms, so I finished implementing them in scipy
>> (both single and double prec):
>>
>> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scipy/browser/trunk/scipy/fftpack/realtransforms.py
>
> Any reason why these would not belong in numpy?

Two reasons:
 - we generally don't want to expand numpy functionalities.
 - the code depends on the fftpack library, which is not in numpy.

David