[SciPy-Dev] Design of scipy.stats

[David Goldsmith]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Ralf Gommers
<ralf.gommers at googlemail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:13 AM, David Goldsmith <d.l.goldsmith at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>> That doesn't fix everything, the x_gen classes should also not be edited
> right now.
>

Why?


> Plus they're not really unimportant.
>

Why not?  They're not returned by Python's help system.  (See earlier this
same thread.)


> A new way to 'lock' pages would really be helpful.
>

Agreed.

DG

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