[SciPy-Dev] scipy.signal function naming

[Ralf Gommers]

Hi,

Historically many names in scipy.signal have followed Matlab, which
typically chooses short but very nondescriptive names. I would prefer to
not keep doing that but instead choose readable names that fit with the
rest of Scipy and Python. Recent examples from PRs, with in brackets a
proposed alternative:

grpdelay (group_delay) - https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/4549
place (place_poles) - https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/4295
ctrb (controllalbility_matrix) - https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/4515
obsv (observability_matrix) - https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/4515
upfirdn (rate_resample ?) - just discussed on list

Thoughts?

Ralf
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