[Numpy-discussion] import overhead of numpy.testing

[Benjamin Root]

On Aug 11, 2013 4:37 PM, "Andrew Dalke" <dalke at dalkescientific.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 11, 2013, at 10:24 PM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> > The idea would be that within numpy (and we should fix SciPy as well),
we would always import numpy._testing as testing, and not import testing.py
ourselves.
>
> The problem is the existing code out there which does:
>
> import numpy as np
>  ...
> np.testing.utils.assert_almost_equal(x, y)
>
> (That is, without an additional import), and other code which does
>
> from numpy.testing import *
>

I wouldn't consider having then both emit a warning. The latter one is an
explicit import (albeit horrible). Iirc, that should import the testing.py,
and deactivate the warnings.

However, "from numpy import testing" would be a problem... Drat...

Forget I said anything. The idea wouldn't work.

Ben
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