[SciPy-Dev] Design of scipy.stats

[David Goldsmith]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:58 PM, David Goldsmith <d.l.goldsmith at gmail.com>wrote:

> OK, having looked at the source code (duh), I have a better idea what's
> going on; correct me if I'm wrong: the idea was to make each distribution
> generic up to its specification parameters, and immediately available upon
> importing scipy.stats (i.e., no need to explicitly import distributions, no
> need for the user to create an instance of the desired distribution).  The
> former suggested the object model (i.e., classes) be used, the latter
> required such classes to be instantiated at module scope on import of
> distributions (which import scipy.stats does).  With this in mind, I'm
> comfortable w/ the status quo as far as the code is concerned, supplemented
> w/ an explanation of this (which I'll write, unless someone feels I won't do
> it justice - don't be shy about telling me so, I won't take it personally)
> in (module) distribution's docstring.  I do feel, however, that it would be
> best if the Wiki didn't think that the instances required/possessed
> docstrings, or at least warned unsuspecting editors that editing those
> objects' docstrings is a waste of time; accordingly, I'll be filing a
> ticket...
>
> DG


Duh (again) I'll just change the status of each instance object to
Unimportant.

DG


>
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:42 PM, David Goldsmith <d.l.goldsmith at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:03 PM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I knew the issue sounded familiar; I'll have to go back and read that
>> thread more thoroughly.
>>
>>
>>> As for why it was written this way: I don't know
>>>
>>
>> Well, thanks to Robert, now we do. :-)
>>
>> DG
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Josef
>>>
>>> >
>>> > DG
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> >
>>> >> > DG
>>> >> >
>>> >> > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Robert Kern <
>>> robert.kern at gmail.com>
>>> >> > wrote:
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 13:22, David Goldsmith
>>> >> >> <d.l.goldsmith at gmail.com>
>>> >> >> wrote:
>>> >> >> > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:12 AM, David Huard <
>>> david.huard at gmail.com>
>>> >> >> > wrote:
>>> >> >> >>
>>> >> >> >> <X>_gen is a class and <X> an instance of that class.
>>> >> >> >>
>>> >> >> >> David H.
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > So which is a user expected to use?
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> The latter.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> --
>>> >> >> Robert Kern
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a
>>> harmless
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>> Mathematician: noun, someone who disavows certainty when their uncertainty
>> set is non-empty, even if that set has measure zero.
>>
>> Hope: noun, that delusive spirit which escaped Pandora's jar and, with her
>> lies, prevents mankind from committing a general suicide.  (As interpreted
>> by Robert Graves)
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Mathematician: noun, someone who disavows certainty when their uncertainty
> set is non-empty, even if that set has measure zero.
>
> Hope: noun, that delusive spirit which escaped Pandora's jar and, with her
> lies, prevents mankind from committing a general suicide.  (As interpreted
> by Robert Graves)
>



-- 
Mathematician: noun, someone who disavows certainty when their uncertainty
set is non-empty, even if that set has measure zero.

Hope: noun, that delusive spirit which escaped Pandora's jar and, with her
lies, prevents mankind from committing a general suicide.  (As interpreted
by Robert Graves)
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