[Scipy-svn] r2158 - trunk/Lib/interpolate

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Sat Aug 12 19:04:37 EDT 2006


Author: stefan
Date: 2006-08-12 18:04:32 -0500 (Sat, 12 Aug 2006)
New Revision: 2158

Modified:
   trunk/Lib/interpolate/fitpack.py
Log:
Improve user-friendliness of splrep [for David Huard]. Closes ticket
#199.


Modified: trunk/Lib/interpolate/fitpack.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/Lib/interpolate/fitpack.py	2006-08-12 21:37:25 UTC (rev 2157)
+++ trunk/Lib/interpolate/fitpack.py	2006-08-12 23:04:32 UTC (rev 2158)
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
     fp gives the upper bound fp0 for the smoothing factor s""",None],
                1:["""\
     The required storage space exceeds the available strorage space.
-    Probably causes: nest to small or s is too small. (fp>s)""",ValueError],
+    Probably causes: data (x,y) size is too small or smoothing parameter s is too small (fp>s).""",ValueError],
                2:["""\
     A theoretically impossible results when finding a smoothin spline
     with fp = s. Probably causes: s too small. (abs(fp-s)/s>0.001)""",ValueError],
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
 
 _curfit_cache = {'t': array([],float), 'wrk': array([],float),
                  'iwrk':array([],int)}
-def splrep(x,y,w=None,xb=None,xe=None,k=3,task=0,s=None,t=None,
+def splrep(x,y,w=None,xb=None,xe=None,k=3,task=0,s=1e-3,t=None,
            full_output=0,per=0,quiet=1):
     """Find the B-spline representation of 1-D curve.
 
@@ -308,7 +308,17 @@
 
     Remarks:
 
-      SEE splev for evaluation of the spline and its derivatives.
+      See splev for evaluation of the spline and its derivatives.
+      
+    Example:
+        
+      x = linspace(0, 10, 10)
+      y = sin(x)
+      tck = splrep(x, y)
+      x2 = linspace(0, 10, 200)
+      y2 = splev(x2, tck)
+      plot(x, y, 'o', x2, y2)
+      
     """
     if task<=0:
         _curfit_cache = {}




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