[SciPy-Dev] Changes to fsolve interface to match recent changes to leastsq interface

[Charles R Harris]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Travis Oliphant <oliphant at enthought.com>wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> This is a heads-up in case there are concerns that I recently checked in
> (to both trunk and 0.8.x branch) a small one-line change to fsolve to mirror
> the change that was made to leastsq which removes the special-case handling
> of one-variable problems.
>
> The effect is to ensure that both fsolve and leastsq will continue to have
> the same interface which now requires less special-case handling because it
> always returns an array of length 1.
>
> This is a relatively small, but real semantic change.   While most code
> will not be bothered by length-1 arrays instead of scalars being returned
> from fsolve and leastsq for the 1-variable case, it does represent a bit of
> a change and so should be stated in the release notes.
>
> The change to leastsq fixes a problem with curve_fit and also arguably
> simplifies the leastsq API.
>
>
I think the change should to be documented in both the function and the
release notes, probably with version info in the case of the function.

Chuck
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