Andrew Dalke:
Any chance of someone reviewing my suggestions for making the import somewhat faster still?
Travis E. Oliphant:
In sum: I think 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 9 can be done immediately. 1) and 4) could be O.K. but 1) does break code and 4 I'm not sure about. 5 seems like it's too much code duplication for too little savings for my taste.
Since no one else has said yea or nay, and 2.1 release draws nigh[*], the simplest solution is to do 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 9. I showed that 1 will break existing code. As for #4 - as far as I can tell the code in 'doc' is recent, so no user code depends on it. Plus, the documentation that's there is effectively unusable, with files like:
"""
====== Jargon ======
Placeholder for computer science, engineering and other jargon.
"""
so I still want to remove the "import doc" in numpy/__init__.py .
As for #5, that should probably be tied to the nosetests migration, so it will be done "soon"ish, but not for this release.
Is there a lack of disagreement on this? Should I construct a patch accordingly? Or wait longer?
Andrew dalke@dalkescientific.com
[*] nigh: a word I don't use often except after "draw". http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nigh Interesting. English once used "nigh, near, next" instead of "near", "nearer", "nearest".