On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:19 PM, David Goldsmith <d.l.goldsmith@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, Wayne.

They're not nearly as structured, but for the time being (indefinitely? unless a volunteer steps forward to build something for us more closely resembling the GMI), you could use the numpy and scipy doc Wiki Milestones pages:

http://docs.scipy.org/numpy/Milestones/

http://docs.scipy.org/scipy/Milestones/

in this fashion.

DG

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnview@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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I was just looking at the (Win) Python documentation via the Help on IDLE, and a Global Module Index. Does anything like that exist for numpy, matplotlib, scipy?

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the autogenerated indices are here and also in the htmlhelp http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/modindex.html http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/genindex.html However, because of the package structure of numpy the modindex is not as useful as the one for python. I find the structure of routines, and the index search in the htmlhelp more useful. Josef

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:28 AM, denis <denis-bz-py@t-online.de> wrote:

On 17/01/2010 18:57, Wayne Watson wrote:

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I was just looking at the (Win) Python documentation via the Help on IDLE, and a Global Module Index. Does anything like that exist for numpy, matplotlib, scipy?

Wayne, folks,

  may I second the wish / the need for searching thousands of functions.

Fwiw, grep makes a crude but very fast source tree browser: 1) grep class + def + first docstring lines in numpy/...py (re, no import); this looks like

       -- numpy/compat/setupscons.py        def configuration(parent_package='',top_path=None):

       -- numpy/core/arrayprint.py        def product(x, y): return x*y        def set_printoptions(precision=None, threshold=None, edgeitems=None,        def get_printoptions():            """ Return the current print options.        def array2string(a, max_line_width = None, precision = None,        ...

2) grep2 that, i.e. grep + previous ^-- line. numpy.defs is 6k lines, 230k, grep time ~ .25 sec.

What do we really want --  - a source browser GUI, pyqt or webbrowser  - or a better text pydoc  - or full-text search -- Robert Kern has suggested his Whoosh ? We could get together a table of existing GUIs and desiderata, sort by sum(features) / time-to-write-a-manual (not time-to-hack). Or,        o'er forms of doc let fools contest,        what's best written is the best.

cheers   -- denis

htmlhelp (of the docs) has all of the above at least on Windows, except for source browsing (I use spyder for functions that are source accessible) Isn't there a Linux equivalent? I haven't use np.lookfor or np.source in a long time. Josef

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