[SciPy-dev] scipy.interpolate.fitpack patch

[Stefan van der Walt]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:14:22AM +0000, John Travers wrote:
> On 06/02/07, Zachary Pincus <zpincus at stanford.edu> wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > I found a minor bug in some of the routines in
> > scipy.interpolate.fitpack that deal with parametric splines.
> > ...
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Zach Pincus
> 
> Hi Zach,
> 
> The bug you mentioned has already been fixed in a new development
> version of fitpack which is currently in the sandbox under the spline
> package.
> I'm currently trying to move fitpack.py to depend purely on f2py
> generated interfaces. I have also added a number of unit tests to find
> other bugs. In addition a number of other enhancements have been made.
> Check the README file in the package directory for details.

We should at least maintain the version in main scipy until it can be
replaced with the one in sandbox.  Alternatively, since it seems the
version in scipy-main is broken anyway (?), replace it and just make
sure the code remains in a usable condition.

Cheers
Stéfan