[SciPy-dev] Release of SciPy Core 0.4 (Beta)

[Robert Kern]

Nils Wagner wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> what has happened to the matfuncs like linalg.expm, linalg.sqrtm, ... to
> name a few.
> 
> 
>>>>dir (linalg)
> 
> ['Heigenvalues', 'Heigenvectors', 'LinAlgError', 'MLab', 'Numeric',
> '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__path__',
> 'asarray', 'basic_lite', 'cholesky', 'cholesky_decomposition', 'det',
> 'determinant', 'eig', 'eigenvalues', 'eigenvectors', 'eigh', 'eigvals',
> 'eigvalsh', 'generalized_inverse', 'inv', 'inverse', 'lapack_lite',
> 'linear_least_squares', 'lstsq', 'math', 'multiply', 'pinv',
> 'singular_value_decomposition', 'solve', 'solve_linear_equations', 'svd']
> 
> 
> And the status of the former packages io, optimize, sparse, signal and
> integrate in new scipy - how about that ?

They're not in scipy_core. That's why it's called scipy_core; it's just
the core functionality. The other functions and modules will be
available in the complete scipy package; we're porting them over now.

-- 
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

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