[SciPy-User] partial derivatives of a bivariate spline

[Nils Wagner]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:20:17 +0200
  Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Nils Wagner
> <nwagner at iam.uni-stuttgart.de>wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:50:23 +0200
>>  Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Nils Wagner
>> > <nwagner at iam.uni-stuttgart.de>wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> How can I compute the partial derivatives of a 
>>bivariate
>> >> spline in scipy ?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.interpolate.bisplev.html
>>
>> AFAIK, bisplev and bisplrep correspond to the old 
>>FITPACK
>> wrapper.
>> I would like to use
>>
>> http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.interpolate.BivariateSpline.html#scipy.interpolate.BivariateSpline
>>
>> http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.interpolate.LSQBivariateSpline.html#scipy.interpolate.LSQBivariateSpline
>>
>> Looks like BivariateSpline forgot to grow a 
>>derivatives() method,
> UnivariateSpline does have one. This would be a useful 
>addition. Could you
> open a feature request for it? Or perhaps even a pull 
>request:)
> 
> To get something done now, you should be able to just 
>pass the tck attribute
> of BivariateSpline to bisplev I think.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf

Done. See http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/ticket/1522

Cheers,
                    Nils