[SciPy-user] changing the default data type of zeros and ones

Ryan Krauss ryanlists at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 11:39:32 EDT 2007


I guess it can be that simple.  I will start doing that.

Thanks,

Ryan

On 10/11/07, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:34:54AM -0500, Ryan Krauss wrote:
> > Sorry, this is a pylab/numpy incompatibility problem.  In order to not
> > spend a lot of time talking about namespaces and such, I teach them to
> > put
>
> > from scipy import *
> > from pylab import *
>
> > at the beginning of every script and from there it will kind of feel
> > like Matlab.  It is pylab.zeros and pylab.ones that is the problem.
>
> > How do I best explain this to my students?
>
> Reverse the order of the scipy and pylab import. With all due respect to
> the MPL guys who have done a fantastic job of making things simple, I'd
> much rather have scipy functions overridding pylab's than the opposite.
>
> Gaël
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