Hi, to, 2018-03-29 kello 15:43 -0400, Warren Weckesser kirjoitti:
According to the SciPy roadmap ( https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/master/doc/ROADMAP.rst.txt#misc), `scipy.misc` will eventually be removed. Currently, the combinatorial functions and the image-related operations are all deprecated. The only non-deprecated functions in `misc` are `central_diff_weights()`, `derivative()` and the two functions that return image data: `ascent()` and `face()`.
As a steps towards the deprecation of `misc`, I propose that we create a new package, `scipy.data`, for holding data sets. `ascent()` and `face()` would move there, and the new ECG data set proposed in a current pull request (https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/8627) would be put there.
From the rest of the thread, it appears that there is not very clear
At first sight I think that these two functions (and the third one with ECG signal sample) alone would sound more suitable to be placed in `scipy.ndimage` and `scipy.signal`. Top-level module for them alone sounds overkill, and I'm not sure if discoverability alone is enough. picture of what else we would like to put in there. For the downloadable datasets idea, I would not recommend doing anything that requires maintenance. Sorting out hosting issues is boring, and when done on a volunteer basis it always tends to fall on the same chumps. It's not really in the core mission of the project. Note also the (probably mostly forgotten) numpy.DataSource https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.DataSource.html Pauli