[SciPy-dev] Is scipy.stci an orphan?

[Cohen-Tanugi Johann]

hi there, sorry for my pedestrian question,
but if you distribute it in standalone somewhere else anyway, what is 
the argument to keep it in scipy?
:)
Johann

Christopher Hanley wrote:
> josef.pktd at gmail.com wrote:
>   
>> I think the imports are also not correctly exposed.
>>
>> * convolve and image are not exposed on the stsci module level (no
>> __all__ anywhere_) and have to be imported individually. I don't know
>> if this is on purpose, but it might confuse the doc generation
>>
>> * there is a `scipy.stsci.convolve.lineshape` that really looks
>> orphaned, import doesn't work and it doesn't seem to be used, but I
>> didn't check carefully
>>
>> * test coverage = 0
>>
>>     
>>>>> stsci.convolve
>>>>>           
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<pyshell#36>", line 1, in <module>
>>     stsci.convolve
>> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'convolve'
>>     
>>>>> from scipy.stsci import convolve
>>>>>           
>>     
>>>>> import scipy.stsci.convolve.lineshape as lsh
>>>>>           
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<pyshell#43>", line 1, in <module>
>>     import scipy.stsci.convolve.lineshape as lsh
>>   File "\Programs\Python25\Lib\site-packages\scipy\stsci\convolve\lineshape.py",
>> line 43, in <module>
>>     from convolve._lineshape import *
>> ImportError: No module named convolve._lineshape
>>
>> Josef
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>
> OK.  I'll check the imports and see about making the stsci module level 
> stuff more scipy friendly.
>
> There are doctests for image and convolve.  I will look into exposing them.
>
> We normally package these as stand alone modules with our software 
> distributions.  We haven't yet wanted our users to need to install 
> scipy.  Obviously we need to make this more scipy friendly as well.
>
> Chris
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