[SciPy-dev] genetic algorithm, number theory, filterdesign,zerofinding

[Chuck Harris]

Hi

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> From: pearu at scipy.org [mailto:pearu at scipy.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 1:19 PM
> To: scipy-dev at scipy.org
> Subject: RE: [SciPy-dev] genetic algorithm, number theory,
> filterdesign,zerofinding
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> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Chuck Harris wrote:
> 
> > > How to you feel about Fortran? Actually C is also fine for me.
> > 
> > I don't mind Fortran, and for some things I think it is 
> superior to C,
> > but I find that C compilers are easier to come by on all 
> platforms; I
> > don't much enjoy cygwin. Also, at this point in time C is more
> > familiar to me. For the root finding, it shouldn't be too 
> hard to keep
> > track of reference counting.
> 
> I don't think that SciPy can be freed from Fortran stuff. There is

Absolutely, no argument here.

> > Hmm... f2py handles this?
> 
> Yes, it does (cblas,clapack are wrapped with f2py, for example). The
> signature files may look Fortran but there is actually only little
> difference in wrapping Fortran or C functions. And there are some  
> additional hooks available for the signature files that ease 
> overcoming

Signature file?

> these small differences (intent(c), fortranname, callstatement,
> callprotoargument etc. statements).
> Of course, I am assuming that C functions do not use 
> complicated struct's,
> except the complex one.

Root finders are pretty basic. Looks like the standard call for all of them would be:

solve(f,a,b,args=(),xtol=default,maxiter=default)

with a (python) float return. a,b,xtol should be double, or converted to double. maxiter is integer, and f returns double to the C routine.

There is a disagreement between say, fsolve and bisection, where one has the named argument xtol, and the other tol. How should this be resolved?

I could probably just look at the wrapper for fsolve and make a few changes, eh?

Chuck
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