[SciPy-dev] adding mpfit to scipy optimize (Please respond)

[Pauli Virtanen]

Sat, 09 May 2009 23:33:13 -0600, Charles R Harris wrote:

> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:21 PM, william ratcliff <
> william.ratcliff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the feedback!   Next week is rather busy for me, but I will
>> try to improve the exception handling and look into calling portions of
>> minpack directly (ex qr factorization) --but are they currently exposed
>> to python?
>>
>>
> qr is available in numpy, try help np.linalg.qr .

However, column-pivoted QR, which the Minpack code uses is not exposed 
currently, AFAIK. The LAPACK routines xGEQPF/xGEQP3 doing this could be 
easily exposed in scipy.lib.lapack by modifying	scipy/lib/lapack/
flapack_llsc.pyf.src

-- 
Pauli Virtanen