[SciPy-Dev] Mea culpa: deprecation and API changes

[David Goldsmith]

I trust you changed their docstrings accordingly?

DG

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Warren Weckesser <
warren.weckesser at enthought.com> wrote:

> Over the last several months, I've changed the API of few function in
> ways that are not compatible with the previous behavior.  These are:
>
> constants.find
>    It now returns a list instead of printing it.
> (http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/ticket/996)
>
> linalg.solveh_banded
>    It now returns just the solution, instead of the tuple containing
> the solution and the cholesky factor.
> (http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/ticket/676)
>
> signal.chirp
>    Removed one keyword argument and added a new keyword argument.
> Also, it no longer handles a polynomial (or polynomial-like) argument.
> (http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/ticket/1105, but the API changes are
> not actually related to the problem reported there.)
>
>
> The recent discussion about deprecation and ppimport reminded me that
> these changes should be deprecated for one release.
>
> What I would like to do is leave trunk as it is, and after 0.8 is
> branched, make the appropriate changes in the branch to follow the
> deprecation policy.  Is that a reasonable approach?
>
>
> Warren
>
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