On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Mark Wiebe
Probably should have! Either way, it's something to consider: if we introduce those functions now, people will start to use them where they are (np.xyz), introducing another change in usage comes 2.0 (or 3.0 or whichever).
Absolutely, do you have any suggestions about organizing the datetime functionality? It's as good a place as any to try applying a good namespace convention.
The first thought that comes to mind is simply to keep them in a submodule, so that users can do something like: from numpy.datetime import some_date_func That convention should be very easy to support across the restructuring. The important thing then is to document clearly that these functions are available. Regards Stéfan