<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 17, 2006, at 9:54 AM, John Byrnes wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Lucida Grande">but rather to use:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Lucida Grande">import numpy as np</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Lucida Grande">import scipy as S</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Lucida Grande">import pylab as pl</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>This may indeed be better (although I am generally lazy, and just import * them). I would certainly be willing to make the effort not to be lazy if there was a standard convention. Are there standard names for importing these packages? I have seen quite a few different conventions in various peoples code. E..g, why not import scipy as sp (instead of S)? From the Numeric days, people often import NumPy (et al.) as N, matplotlib as mpl, etc.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Rob</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> <DIV>-----</DIV> <DIV>Rob Hetland, Assistant Professor</DIV> <DIV>Dept of Oceanography, Texas A&M University</DIV> <DIV>p: 979-458-0096, f: 979-845-6331</DIV><DIV>e: hetland@tamu.edu, w: <A href="http://pong.tamu.edu">http://pong.tamu.edu</A></DIV> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>