[SciPy-User] (pas de sujet)
Robert Kern
robert.kern at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 16:56:08 EDT 2011
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 15:02, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 14:33, Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure if:
>>>
>>> import scipy as sp
>>>
>>> is as common, but it seems reasonable to me.
>>
>> It's utterly useless since the scipy subpackages aren't imported along
>> with it. Don't do it.
>
> Our docs disagree:
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/HOWTO_DOCUMENT.rst.txt
That part was written by someone plagued by hobgoblins and who didn't
think it through.
> It still saves a few characters writing "sp.linalg.xxx" instead of
> "scipy.linalg.xxx".
False comparison. "scipy.linalg.xxx" is not thing to compare to.
# Right way.
from scipy import linalg
linalg.xxx
vs.
# Silly, unnecessarily complicated way.
import scipy as sp
import scipy.linalg
sp.linalg.xxx
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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