[SciPy-dev] Problem in stats.py

[eric]

>
> Hello Folks,
>
> I just discovered a problem in the latest version of stats.py. In line 1637
> it tries to import special directly. Changing this in scipy.special fixes
> this, but then it is complaining about not finding neginomcdfinv. For the
> time being I reverted back to the old version of the stats module.
>
> Heiko

Travis O. cleaned this up, but I'm getting the same problem  - except with
possioncdf.  If I try:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32>python
Python 2.1.1 (#20, Jul 20 2001, 01:19:29) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from scipy import *
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\Python21\scipy\__init__.py", line 74, in ?
    names2all(__all__, _level0, globals())
  File "C:\Python21\scipy\__init__.py", line 42, in names2all
    exec("import %s" % name, gldict)
  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\Python21\scipy\misc.py", line 22, in ?
    import scipy.stats
  File "C:\Python21\scipy\stats\__init__.py", line 4, in ?
    from stats import *
  File "C:\Python21\scipy\stats\stats.py", line 1637, in ?
    from scipy.special import binomcdf, binomcdfc, binomcdfinv, betacdf, betaq,
fcdf, \
ImportError: cannot import name possioncdf

But, if I comment out this:

from scipy.special import binomcdf, binomcdfc, binomcdfinv, betacdf, betaq,
fcdf, \
     fcdfc, fp, gammacdf, gammacdfc, gammaq, negbinomcdf, negbinomcdfinv #, \
#     possioncdf, poissioncdfc, possioncdfinv, studentcdf, studentq, \
#     chi2cdf, chi2cdfc, chi2p, normalcdf, normalq, smirnovcdfc, smirnovp, \
#     kolmogorovcdfc, kolmogorovp

>>> from scipy import *
<it works!>
>>>

What gets me is that a dir(scipy.special) shows that possioncdf and friends are
there as they should be.  I don't understand, then, why the import statement
fails.  It seems like either they all would fail, or none would fail.  Any ideas
why the first 14 functions work and the others fail?

eric