On 8/19/2013 2:37 AM, Juan Luis Cano wrote: > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/2880 > > it was suggested that we deprecate and eventually remove the financial > functions in NumPy
It seems that this summary is a bit one-sided. There was also a suggestion to move these into numpy.financial, which is much less disruptive. I'm not arguing for either of those choices, but it seems to me that the right way to bring this forward to to recall the original motivation for having them and ask if that motivation has fallen apart. I believe that the original motivation for providing the financial functions was to complete the sense that Python users could turn to NumPy whenever they might turn to a calculator: http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2008-April/032422.html Behind this, I believe, was a desire to draw new users to NumPy. The request for simple financial functions does arise, and people do get pointed to NumPy for this. This seems to me to be a benefit to the NumPy community, although a small one. I'm getting the feeling that some of the opposition to the financial functions is purely aesthetic. ("What are *these* doing here??") It seems to me that a request for comments would be more useful if it tried to lay out the perceived costs and benefits to this change. One cost that has been clearly stated is namespace pollution. That seems pretty small to me, but in any case would be fully addressed by making these available as numpy.financial. Alan Isaac _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
