[Python-ideas] Extremely weird itertools.permutations

[Neil Girdhar]

Look I don't want it, and anyway it's already in scipy.special.  I just
organizational symmetry.  I expected to find complex versions of math
functions in cmath —not in scipy special.


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Oscar Benjamin
<oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 14 October 2013 13:37, Neil Girdhar <mistersheik at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Actually I didn't notice that.  It seems weird to find erf in math, but
> erf
> > for complex numbers in scipy.special.  It's just about organization and
> user
> > discovery.  I realize that from the developer's point of view, erf for
> > complex numbers is complicated, but why does the user care?
>
> This is the first time I've seen a suggestion that there should be
> cmath.erf. So I would say that most users don't care about having a
> complex error function. Whoever would take the time to implement the
> complex error function might instead spend that time implementing and
> maintaining something that users do care about.
>
>
> Oscar
>
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