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

Zhang Le wrote:

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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?

Well, Numeric had the sum function long before Python introduced one. NumPy adopted Numeric's sum function as well. -Travis