[SciPy-Dev] New subpackage: scipy.data

[Pauli Virtanen]

pe, 2018-03-30 kello 12:20 -0700, Phillip Feldman kirjoitti:
> Is there a substitute for the deprecated combinatorics functions?

I think they were moved to scipy.special. The documentation iirc says
where to find it now.

	Pauli


> FYI, a few years ago, I wrote a Python combinatorics package to fill
> in
> some of the gaps in `itertools`.  My package can be found here:
> 
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Combinatorics/1.4.5
> 
> Phillip
> 
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:43 PM, Warren Weckesser <
> warren.weckesser at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > According to the SciPy roadmap (https://github.com/scipy/
> > scipy/blob/master/doc/ROADMAP.rst.txt#misc),
> > `scipy.misc` will eventually be removed. Currently, the
> > combinatorial
> > functions and the image-related operations are all deprecated.  The
> > only
> > non-deprecated functions in `misc` are `central_diff_weights()`,
> > `derivative()` and the two functions that return image data:
> > `ascent()` and
> > `face()`.
> > 
> > As a steps towards the deprecation of `misc`, I propose that we
> > create a
> > new package, `scipy.data`, for holding data sets.  `ascent()` and
> > `face()`
> > would move there, and the new ECG data set proposed in a current
> > pull
> > request (https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/8627) would be put
> > there.
> > 
> > An early version of the roadmap suggested moving the images to
> > `scipy.ndimage`, but that is no longer in the text.  I think a
> > separate
> > subpackage for data sets makes sense.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> > 
> > P.S. If there is already a similar proposal in the mailing list or
> > on
> > github, or any other older mailing list discussions related to
> > this, let me
> > know.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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