[SciPy-dev] Status of sandbox.spline and my other code.

[John Travers]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Zachary Pincus <zachary.pincus@yale.edu> wrote:
> > The code in sandbox.spline should be a complete replacement for the
>  > code in scipy.interpolate.fitpack and fitpack2 including the f2py
>  > wrappers of the fitpack fortran code (i.e. replacing the hand crafted
>  > c wrappers). Apart from using only f2py, a number of improvements were
>  > made to the docstrings and error checking and some bugs fixed and
>  > quite a few unit tests added.
>
>  This should also make it easier to add wrappers for additional
>  functions from the dierckx code, no? E.g. I now use hand-made wrappers
>  for 'insert' to convert splines to Bezier curves (for graphic output)
>  using knot insertion, but it would be nice to just have that f2py'd.
>

It doesn't make it much easier, because some functions are using f2py
in the original
module anyway. But more consistent/easier to maintain. BTW I added the
insert wrapper using
f2py to the sandbox version of the code about a year ago (when you
first posted your patches I think).
I also have wrappers for some other dierckx functions, which I'll add
when I get time.

Cheers,
John