[SciPy-user] Interpolation

[Frank Gibbons]

Travis,

Thanks for the pointers. I'll try this, and see if I can figure out what's 
going wrong.

In the meantime, and in response to Pearu Peterson's message yesterday 
about Python not having a standard for documentation processing. I don't 
know about you guys, but one of the first things I do with a new package, 
even before I install it, is check out the docs, to get an idea of what it 
does, and how it does it. 'info' is fine, once you've got the system 
installed (and this is not trivial for scipy, what with ATLAS, LAPACK and 
BLAS), but it is of no help to those who don't have it installed. 
Furthermore, I find it handy to have printed documentation. Not only can I 
find things more easily and quickly than most online help systems, but it 
allows me to work in my SciPy interactive window, and still keep the 
documentation in front of me. Without something written, I have to keep 
interrupting my typing with "info(this)" and "info(that)".

For those who know SciPy from the inside out, info is probably all you'll 
ever need. But for those coming from the outside, I think something more is 
necessary, and I think the sooner SciPy has this (well formatted online 
HTML/PDF docs, and something printable, both viewable without having to 
install), the better for it.

I offer this not as a criticism, simply as a user observation. Thanks again 
for the tips.

-Frank


At 01:00 PM 12/10/2002, you wrote:
>Note, that splev should accept xvals (i.e. you shouldn't have to do the
>list comprehension)
>
>spline = splev(xvals, tck)
>
>should work fine.
>
>Try
>
>info(interpolate)
>
>to get an overview of the interpolate package.
>
>Try
>
>info(scipy)
>
>to get an overview of scipy

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