[Numpy-discussion] Removing deprecated names (original) (raw)

Ed Schofield schofield at ftw.at
Sun Jun 4 13:02:17 EDT 2006

Hi all,

I've created four patches to remove deprecated names from the
numpy.core and numpy namespaces by default. The motivation for this
is to provide a clear separation for both new users and users
migrating from Numeric between those names that are deprecated and
those that are recommended.

The first patch cleans up NumPy to avoid the use of deprecated names
internally:

http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/137

The second patch separates the Numeric-like function interfaces,
which Travis has said he doesn't want to deprecate, from the other
names in oldnumeric.py, which include the capitalized type names,
arrayrange, matrixmultiply, outerproduct, NewAxis, and a few others:

http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/138

The third patch removes the deprecated names from the numpy.core and
numpy namespaces and adds a compatibility function, numpy.Numeric(),
that imports the deprecated interfaces into the namespace as before:

http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/139

The fourth patch (also in ticket #139) is a script that adds the line
"numpy.Numeric()" to the appropriate place in all Python files in the
specified directory. I've tested this on the SciPy source tree,
which still uses the old Numeric interfaces in many places. After
running the script, SciPy runs all its 1518 unit tests without errors.

These patches make a fairly small difference to the size of NumPy's
default namespace:

import numpy len(dir(numpy)) 438 numpy.Numeric() len(dir(numpy)) 484

They do, however, help to support Python principle #13 ...

-- Ed

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