(Sorry about sending this to the wrong list, scipy-user instead of scipy-dev, before; apologize to those who saw this twice) Hi all, I was reading through the link (http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/api.html#guidelines-for-importing-...) and it mentioned that the first form is preferred over the second one under most circumstances: # first form from scipy import stats stats.lomax(...) # second form from scipy.stats import distributions distributions.lomax(...) I honestly think the second form is far more frequently used in the examples given in the document, for example: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/special.html http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/integrate.html http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/optimize.html http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/interpolate.html http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/fftpack.html Would you think it'd be better to update this link? -Shawn
#bump# On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Yuxiang Wang <yw5aj@virginia.edu> wrote:
(Sorry about sending this to the wrong list, scipy-user instead of scipy-dev, before; apologize to those who saw this twice)
Hi all,
I was reading through the link ( http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/api.html#guidelines-for-importing-... ) and it mentioned that the first form is preferred over the second one under most circumstances:
# first form from scipy import stats stats.lomax(...)
# second form from scipy.stats import distributions distributions.lomax(...)
I honestly think the second form is far more frequently used in the examples given in the document, for example:
http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/special.html http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/integrate.html http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/optimize.html http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/interpolate.html http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/fftpack.html
Would you think it'd be better to update this link?
-Shawn
-- Yuxiang "Shawn" Wang Gerling Research Lab University of Virginia yw5aj@virginia.edu +1 (434) 284-0836 https://sites.google.com/a/virginia.edu/yw5aj/
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Yuxiang Wang <yw5aj@virginia.edu> wrote:
(Sorry about sending this to the wrong list, scipy-user instead of scipy-dev, before; apologize to those who saw this twice)
Hi all,
I was reading through the link ( http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/api.html#guidelines-for-importing-... ) and it mentioned that the first form is preferred over the second one under most circumstances:
# first form from scipy import stats stats.lomax(...)
# second form from scipy.stats import distributions distributions.lomax(...)
I honestly think the second form is far more frequently used in the examples given in the document, for example:
http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/special.html http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/integrate.html http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/optimize.html http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/interpolate.html http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/fftpack.html
Would you think it'd be better to update this link?
Hi Shawn, sorry for the slow reply. I think what happened here is that we've settled on the first form after part of the documentation was written, and no one has bothered to go through every example in scipy (that would be quite a bit of work...) to make everything consistent. Personally I prefer the first form. Cheers, Ralf
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