[SciPy-dev] MCMC, Kalman Filtering, AI for SciPy?

[Nils Wagner]

Robert Kern wrote:

> Charles Harris wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> I agree that search and indexing are the best ways to find stuff, but 
>> I am mostly concerned as to where to commit stuff. Clustering, where 
>> does that go?
>
>
> scipy.cluster I would imagine.  ;-)
>
>> Lattice methods, where do they go? How about useful data structures 
>> or combinatorics? So on and so forth. I think the upper level GAMS 
>> categories cover sufficient range that most things can be put into a 
>> directory without embarrassment. As to the detailed breakdown in the 
>> GAMS sub-classifications, I am not so sure.
>
>
> To make the discussion a bit more concrete, here is an example 
> directory structure corresponding to the top-level GAMS 
> classifications. The names are all my own, so feel free to pretend 
> they are something more to your liking.
>
> scipy/
>   analysis/
>   numbertheory/
>   functions/
>   linalg/
>   interpolation/
>   rootfinding/
>   optimization/
>   calculus/
>   diffeq/
>   integraltransforms/
>   approximation/
>   probstat/
>   simulation/
>   datahandling/
>   symbolic/
>   geometry/
>   graphics/
>   service/
>   develop/
>   other/


How about an entry for

Systems theory; control

to reconcile with  http://www.ams.org/msc/
I keep the slicot library in mind.

Nils



>
> Now that I see it, it is somewhat appealing. I would probably want to 
> break up some of those into two or more top-level groups. I definitely 
> don't want to see too many subpackages under each of the top-level 
> groups ("Flat is better than nested.").
>
> Fernando, could you give an example or two where you would want to 
> replicate a function across sub-packages? I'm wary of doing so as 
> there is already the enormous amount of replication with respect to, 
> at least, the base Numeric functions. Try scipy.special.<tab> in 
> IPython. I realize what you're proposing doesn't even come close to 
> that, but I'd like an example in any case.
>
> And since we are talking about re-organization, is there anything we 
> can do about the problem I just mentioned? It wreaks havoc with not 
> only tab-completion but also automatic documentation generation [1]. 
> Is it practical to be careful about what we import into __init__.py? 
> By which I mean not doing "from foo import *" in __init__.py where 
> foo.py does "from scipy_base import *". On the other hand, explicitly 
> listing all of the names in special is gonna be a major pain and 
> fragile to boot.
>
> [1] http://www.scipy.org/documentation/apidocs/scipy/scipy.special.html
>


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