[SciPy-User] Bottleneck

[Keith Goodman]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Christopher Barker
<Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> On 12/1/10 4:09 PM, Keith Goodman wrote:
>>> I frequently run software on
>>> machines that only have NumPy installed.
>>
>> Seems like a strange discussion to have on the scipy list :)
>
> True -- and yet I didn't have scipy on this machine yet, either...
>
>> I don't want to have a hole in my unit test coverage. But I could copy
>> over the nan functions in scipy stats. And I guess the benchmark could
>> use those too. And then skip moving window benchmarks against
>> scipy.ndimage for those who don't have scipy installed.
>
> I'd vote to have unit tests that don't require scipy, but I think it's
> fine that the benchmarks do -- that's kind of the point of them --
> comparing bottleneck to the raw scipy functions.

Well, now I have a most requested feature. OK, I'll do it for 0.2.