<div dir="ltr"><div>Is there a substitute for the deprecated combinatorics functions?</div><div><br></div><div>FYI, a few years ago, I wrote a Python combinatorics package to fill in some of the gaps in `itertools`. My package can be found here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Combinatorics/1.4.5">https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Combinatorics/1.4.5</a></div><div><br></div><div>Phillip<span></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:43 PM, Warren Weckesser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:warren.weckesser@gmail.com" target="_blank">warren.weckesser@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">According to the SciPy roadmap (<a href="https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/master/doc/ROADMAP.rst.txt#misc" target="_blank">https://github.com/scipy/<wbr>scipy/blob/master/doc/ROADMAP.<wbr>rst.txt#misc</a>),<br>`scipy.misc` will eventually be removed. Currently, the combinatorial functions and the image-related operations are all deprecated. The only non-deprecated functions in `misc` are `central_diff_weights()`, `derivative()` and the two functions that return image data: `ascent()` and `face()`.<br><br>As a steps towards the deprecation of `misc`, I propose that we create a new package, `scipy.data`, for holding data sets. `ascent()` and `face()` would move there, and the new ECG data set proposed in a current pull request (<a href="https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/8627" target="_blank">https://github.com/scipy/<wbr>scipy/pull/8627</a>) would be put there.<br><br>An early version of the roadmap suggested moving the images to `scipy.ndimage`, but that is no longer in the text. I think a separate subpackage for data sets makes sense.<br><br>What do you think?<br><br>P.S. If there is already a similar proposal in the mailing list or on github, or any other older mailing list discussions related to this, let me know.<br><br><br></div>
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