[Numpy-discussion] Simple financial functions for NumPy

[Sebastian Haase]

Hi Travis,
This sounds of course very interesting, but could you elaborate on the
reasoning why this should not rather be "only" in SciPy !?
I thought many people think that numpy was already too crowded and
should concentrate mostly on being a basic array handling facility.

I'm sure you have a good reason for putting these into numpy. Do you
have a list of the new functions ? Wiki page ?

And once more, thanks for all your great work on numpy. I'm now even
trying to make a career out of using numpy for microscopy image
analysis.

 - Sebastian Haase


On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Travis E. Oliphant
<oliphant@enthought.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>
>  Last night I put together some simple financial functions based on the
>  basic ones available in Excel (and on a financial calculator).  It seems
>  to me that NumPy ought to have these basic functions.
>
>  There may be some disagreement about what to call them and what the
>  interface should be.  I've stuck with the Excel standard names and
>  functionality because most of the people that will use these in the
>  future, I expect will have seen them from Excel and it minimizes the
>  impedance mismatch to have them be similarly named.   The interface is
>  also similar to the IMSL libraries.
>
>  However, if clearly better interfaces can be discovered, then we could
>  change it.   For now, the functions are not imported into the numpy
>  namespace but live in
>
>  numpy.lib.financial
>
>  I could see a future scipy module containing much, much more.
>
>  Comments and improvement suggestions welcome.   We are a week away from
>  release of NumPy 1.0.5, and hopefully we can agree before then.
>
>  Best regards,
>
>
>  -Travis O.