On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Will Furnass will@thearete.co.uk wrote:

On my machine these are rather confusingly different functions, with the latter corresponding to numpy.random.power. I appreciate that pylab imports everything from both the numpy and numpy.random modules but wouldn't it make sense if pylab.power were the frequently used power function rather than a means for sampling from the power distribution?

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