[SciPy-dev] [Numpy-discussion] importing madness

[Travis Oliphant]

Robert Kern wrote:

>Ed Schofield wrote:
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>>Unless I'm doing something very stupid, there seem to be multiple
>>sources of evil here.  First, numpy's linalg package is available from
>>the scipy namespace, which seems like a recipe for Ed's madness, since
>>he can't find his pinv2() function.  Second, scipy.pkgload('linalg')
>>silently fails to make any visible difference.  This is probably a
>>simple bug.
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>It's certainly not intended behavior. The process by which pkgload() determines
>where it is being called from is messing up. pkgload lives in
>numpy._import_tools, but it is also exposed in the scipy namespace, too.
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I think the problem is that I recently added numpy.linalg to the linalg 
namespace (and loaded it by default) and scipy imports the full numpy 
namespace for backwards compatibility.

-Travis