[SciPy-Dev] import scipy convention in docstring Examples

[David Goldsmith]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Warren Weckesser <
warren.weckesser at enthought.com> wrote:

> David Goldsmith wrote:
> > Hi!  For the Examples in the numpy docstrings, we have the convention
> > that we do not need to include "import numpy" (because that is done by
> > our automated example tester) but when we're using a numpy namespace
> > object, we need to prefix it with "np." (because that's how our
> > automated tester is importing it).  Is there a similar convention for
> > docstring Examples in scipy?
> >
>
>
> According to http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/wiki/CodingStyleGuidelines,
> "The examples may assume that import numpy as np is executed before the
> example code in numpy, and import scipy as sp in scipy. "  But sp does
> not appear to be widely used; I can only find it used in
> ndimage.geometric_transform and ndimage.map_coordinates.
>

Thanks, Warren, I d

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> Warren
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