How to make sqrt(-1) be 1j

[Bill Baxter]

On 10/13/06, Tim Hochberg <tim.hochberg at ieee.org> wrote:
> For this sort of thing, I
> would just make a new module to pull together the function I want and
> use that instead. It's then easy to explain that this new module bbeconf
> (Bill Baxter's Excellent Collection Of Numeric Functions) is actually an
> amalgamation of stuff from multiple sources.
>
>     # bbeconf.py
>     from numpy import *
>     fromnumpy.scimath import sqrt
>     # possibly some other stuff to correctly handle subpackages...

That does sound like a good way to do it.
Then you just tell your users to import 'eduNumpy'  rather than numpy,
and you're good to go.
Added that suggestion to http://www.scipy.org/NegativeSquareRoot

I'd like to ask one basic Python question related my previous
suggestion of doing things like "numpy.sqrt = numpy.lib.scimath.sqrt":
In python does that make it so that any module importing numpy in the
same program will now see the altered sqrt function?  E.g. in my
program I do "import A,B".  Module A alters numpy.sqrt.  Does that
also modify how module B sees numpy.sqrt?

If so then that's a very good reason not to do it that way.

I've heard people using the term "monkey-patch" before.  Is that what that is?

--bb

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