[SciPy-user] Getting started wiki page

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 12:37:47PM +0200, Steve Schmerler wrote:
> You used "from scipy import *" which is totally OK for interactive work
> and small scripts as long as one knows what was imported from where.
> Maybe it's worth mentioning that for larger projects it's adviced to
> "import scipy.fft" or "from scipy.fftpack import fft" so as to educate
> people into this direction from the beginning.

My experience is that it scares people, so I actually changed from this
approach back to "from foo import *"

> In the FFT example, maybe you could also mention (for completeness)
> scipy's fft stuff. People who just get started would maybe wonder what
> this mysterious numpy.dual is and why they should import fft from there
> :)

Good point.

> Another small thing: After the "concatenate?" introduction, there is

> In [10]: plot(abs(N.concatenate((b[500:],b[:500]))))

> where you didn't mention that N is numpy. 

Good catch ! This is a left-out from a previous version where numpy was
imported as N.

I have played with the front page and the link to "getting started"
should now be hard to miss ! I think those two pages are very important
as they and I invite you to modify them to make them as nice as possible.

In particular, if someone could make a screenshot of the example session
described in the getting started page under windows (I cannot, I do not
have windows on any of my boxes). Something to replace the current image
with the session described in this page. 

Cheers,

Gaël