[SciPy-user] best way of finding a function

[David M. Cooke]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:43:07AM -0500, Robert Kern wrote:
> Trevis Crane wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > One thing that makes it hard to get into using SciPy and Python is the
> > decentralized nature of the documentation.  My problem is that I want to
> > use the arc-hyperbolic sine function.  I have no idea where this is in
> > order to import it (and in all likelihood I could import it from any
> > number of sources).  I can’t seem to find it looking through the
> > documentation on scipy.org.  This is a specific example, but in general
> > what’s the best way of finding where some given function is in order to
> > import it? 
> 
> Well, it is numpy.arcsinh(). Googling for "numpy arcsinh" brings up numerous
> hits including this:
> 
>   http://www.scipy.org/Numpy_Example_List
> 
> The problem is that you had to know it was called "arcsinh" rather than
> searching for it in a (nonunique) expanded form "arc-hyperbolic sine."

Or, for that matter, that it's arcsinh and not asinh.

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