[SciPy-dev] gsl and scipy

[Travis Oliphant]

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 03:46, arnd.baecker at physik.uni-ulm.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> what is the opinion on including (or making accessible)
> the functionality of gsl
> (http://sources.redhat.com/gsl/) within scipy ?
> 
> Is there the possibility to use f2py etc. to
> generate the necessary wrappers for scipy in an automatic way ?
> (on the gsl page they recommend: swig, g-wrap)

Which algorithms from the gsl are you interested in?

I did a detailed comparison some time ago and found only a few that are
not in SciPy (some of those have since been implemented).

> How difficult would this be ?
> 
> A (slightly) related question: the output of
>   help(scipy.special.airy)
> is, well, not really helpful.

Use 

info(scipy.special.airy)

if you have Scipy-0.2 and greater and Python 2.2

What is not helpful about that output? (aside from the fact that
(Ai,Bi,Aip,Bip) is not shown as the output --- due to the autodoc
generator for these ufuncs.

In Python 2.2 help uses a different facility which apparently cannot
read the docstrings of builtin functions (a limititation in my view).


-Travis


> Would there be any way to attach the information given
> at the beginning of  special/cephes/airy.c
> to the documentation (again in an automatic way ?)?
> 
> Arnd
> 
> 
> 
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