Thanks for the encouragement to try to dive deeper into namespaces, but also thanks for the amin, amax suggestions. Mark On Aug 6, 8:21 pm, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
mark wrote:
Hello list. I am confused about importing numpy.
When I do
from numpy import *
and I try the min function, I get the default Python min function.
On the other hand, when I do
import numpy as np
and use the np.min function, I get the numpy min function (which is obviously what I want).
I know, the latter is preferred, but the former is so dang easy to type. I always thought both imports work the same, but I am obviously wrong. What's the difference?
While I agree with the other posters that "import *" is not preferred, if you want to use it, the solution is to use amin and amax, which are provided precisely to avoid the conflict. Just as arange is a numpy analog of range, amin and amax are numpy analogs of min and max.
Eric
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