[SciPy-dev] Wrapping band matrices

[Pearu Peterson]

Hi Arnd,
Could you set up a scipy ticket for your request and assign it to me?
At the moment I don't have time for testing your wrappers but I'm
interested integrating them to scipy/lib/lapack (the plan is to get rid 
of lapack wrappers from linalg module as other scipy packages might use 
lapack wrappers as well).
Thanks,
Pearu

On Wed, 31 May 2006, Arnd Baecker wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to contribute f2py generated
> wrappers for the LAPACK routines
>  dgbrfs,  dgbtrf, dgbtrs, dsbev, dsbevd, dsbevx
> which deal with symmetric band matrices.
>
> Originally they were developed with Numeric
> and the old f2py.
>
> At this point I have two questions:
>
> a) before the function signature looked like:
>
>    dsbev - Function signature:
>      w,z,info = dsbev(ab,[compute_v,lower,ldab,overwrite_ab])
>
>   but now it is
>
>    dsbev - Function signature:
>      w,z,info = dsbev(ab,[compute_v,lower,ldab])
>
>   I.e.: `overwrite_ab` is missing.
>
>   What has to be done to get this again?
>
> b) What would be the best approach for the integration
>   into scipy?
>
>   The present status is at
>      http://www.physik.tu-dresden.de/~baecker/python/band.zip
>
>   The routines work "stand-alone"
>     python setup.py build
>     python tests/test_band.py
>   and  (after more clean-up/documentation)_
>   might_ be a good example/framework
>   for others to add further LAPACK routines.
>   In particular I think it is easier to test new stuff separately
>   than to directly integrate it into
>   scipy/Lib/linalg/generic_flapack.pyf
>
>   Would it make sense to add this to the scipy sandbox at some point?
>   (I would prefer to leave the final integration
>    into scipy/Lib/linalg/* to a real expert...)
>
>   In any case, before this, the next steps are:
>     - do the <tchar=s,d>sbev stuff for all routines
>       in generic_band.pyf
>     - address FIXMEs in generic_band.pyf
>     - add unit tests for all routines
>       (only one example is given at the moment)
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Arnd
>
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