Hi Nathan On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 03:17:27PM -0600, Nathan Bell wrote:

On Feb 19, 2008 1:47 PM, Stefan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za> wrote:

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Hi all,

I see the sparse linear algebra module is called scipy.splinalg. Is this naming preferred above scipy.sparse.linalg?

There was a lengthy discussion about restructuring the sparse functionality here:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.scientific.devel/7070/focus=7080

Thanks for the pointer. I read the thread now, but it doesn't look as if scipy.sparse.linalg was considered -- and I mention this in relation to the recent post on scipy.sparse.eye etc. I'm just curious as to the motivation behind the name (currently, it looks like it is meant to distinguish between dense and sparse linear algebra, but I suppose scipy.sparse.linalg would have done that as well). The new structure looks good -- thanks for all the effort you put it! Regards Stéfan

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Nathan Bell <wnbell@gmail.com> wrote:

On Feb 19, 2008 3:43 PM, Stefan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za> wrote:

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I'm just curious as to the motivation behind the name (currently, it looks like it is meant to distinguish between dense and sparse linear algebra, but I suppose scipy.sparse.linalg would have done that as well).

That's true. I'm not married to the name splinalg, so I wouldn't object to a change.

It always takes me a moment to translate splin from "spline" to "sparse linear". I think a more obvious name would be a good idea. Chuck

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Nathan Bell <wnbell@gmail.com> wrote:

Fair enough. Would anyone object to moving scipy.splinalg to scipy.sparse.linalg?

If there are no objections I'll make the change within a few days.

As of r3960 scipy.splinalg is now scipy.sparse.linalg -- Nathan Bell wnbell@gmail.com http://graphics.cs.uiuc.edu/~wnbell/