[SciPy-user] Universal constants

[Robert Kern]

R. Padraic Springuel wrote:
> Does anybody know where within scipy (or its associated packages) pi and 
> e are defined?  Also, are any other constants predefined?  I'm thinking 
> of adding a few others to the list but don't want to duplicate effort if 
> its already done and would like to keep everything in one place.

As other people mentioned, pi and e are defined in Numeric, numarray, 
and math. As for adding new constants, I think a new file, 
scipy_base/constants.py, would be a good place for them. I'd rather not 
pollute the global namespace (i.e. what you get when you "from scipy 
import *") with more constants, though.

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