[SciPy-User] Numerical Recipes and scipy

Peter Parente parente at gmail.com
Sun Oct 12 19:31:46 EDT 2014


Thanks for the insight, Pauli.

To save others from wondering or asking my question again, would it be
worth adding to the FAQ or wiki as Matthew suggested?

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:

> 11.10.2014, 00:01, Peter Parente kirjoitti:
> [clip]
> > I see that some code was identified and possibly replaced, but there is
> no
> > distinct end to the activity. Does anyone have an understanding they can
> > share about where SciPy stands today with respect to NR and its license
> > terms?
>
> I am aware of no NR code in Scipy.
>
> References to the book in the documentation are indeed meant to be
> educational and do not signify that the algorithms are implemented using
> code from the book.
>
> The review in 2008 checked all parts of the code where NR was
> referenced, and did not appear to have found any NR code or NR code
> translated/obfuscated to Python. Code in one routine was found to have
> some similarities in structure and was replaced with a reimplementation.
>
> --
> Pauli Virtanen
>
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Pete
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