Re: [Numpy-discussion] min/max not exported in "from numpy import *"

I'm going to take a wild-ass guess and suggest that was a concious decision by the authors. Shadowing builtins is generally a no-no. You just need to be explicit instead of implicit:

from numpy import min, max I see. But why by default sum is exported? Is that a wise decision?

In [1]: from numpy import * In [2]: help sum ------> help(sum) Help on function sum in module numpy.core.oldnumeric: sum(x, axis=0, dtype=None) ... Zhang Le