[Numpy-discussion] Don't like the short names like lstsq and irefft

Alexandre Fayolle alexandre.fayolle at logilab.fr
Fri Jun 16 08:11:52 EDT 2006


On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:43:42AM +0200, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> > Again, there is no defense for abbreviating linear_least_squares
> > because it is unlikely to appear in an expression and waste valuable
> > horisontal space.  
> 
> not true imho; btw, I would suggest "ols" (ordinary least squares),
> which is in every textbook.

Please, keep the zen of python in mind : Explicit is better than
implicit. 

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