On 27/09/2007, Alan G Isaac <aisaac@american.edu> wrote:
Why not allow direct use of subpackages of scipy?
That is, if I want to ``describe`` a series, why not allow::
scipy.stats.describe(myseries)
In [1]: import scipy.stats In [2]: scipy.stats.describe? Type: function Base Class: <type 'function'> String Form: <function describe at 0x86640d4> Namespace: Interactive File: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scipy/stats/stats.py Definition: scipy.stats.describe(a, axis=0) Docstring: [...] You can't just do "import scipy" and access the subpackages, because that would mean that a bare "import scipy" had to recursively load all subpackages, which can be expensive - many shared libraries to load, for example. This is standard behaviour for python packages. Anne