[SciPy-User] Pylab - standard packages

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I've put a draft version of the specification up here:
>> https://github.com/pylab/website/blob/master/specification.rst
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>> How about adding at least a placeholder for the with-compiler pylab?
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>> It's still based on the slide Fernando posted. A couple of packages
>> are in active discussion:
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>> - The IPython notebook has prompted a lot of debate. If you haven't
>> yet voted, please do so: http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/567610
>> - The author of h5py has offered it for inclusion, but no-one else has
>> spoken up for or against it. I'd like to hear from users of both that
>> and PyTables (another interface to HDF5 files).
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>> If there are any other packages you think are important enough to be
>> in the standard, or you feel that some of those currently included
>> should not be, now is the time to speak up.
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I had already suggested one of:
   - PIL / pillow
   - FreeImage (with scikits-image)
Being able to load images seems kind of useful.

Ralf
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