[SciPy-dev] scipy_core bugs

[Robert Kern]

I don't like the fact that scipy.{bool,int,float,complex,object,unicode}
conflict with builtins. That was a bit surprising at the prompt.
Unfortunately, they don't cleanly inherit from the Python counterparts.

In [48]: from scipy import *

In [49]: s = 'This is text.'

In [50]: u = unicode(s)

In [51]: len(u)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
exceptions.TypeError                                 Traceback (most
recent call last)

/Users/kern/svk-projects/ipython/nbdoc/trunk/scipy_tutorial/<console>

TypeError: len() of unsized object

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Robert Kern
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