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"NumPy and SciPy to refer to the projects. numpy and scipy to refer to the packages, specifically. When in doubt, use the former." I thought there was also another discussion about capital letters, but I don't find it. Josef On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Bartosz Telenczuk <m...@telenczuk.pl> wrote: > Hi, > > I would not mind any choice as long as it's consistent. > > I agree that using all-lowercase spelling may avoid some common errors. > However, > PEP8 requires all module/package names to be lower case [1]. If we force the > name of the library and the corresponding package to be the same, all Python > libraries would be named in lowercase. This would not be the best choice for > libraries, which have multi-component names (like NumPy = Numerical Python). > > Note also that both the Wikipedia page [2] and the official NumPy logo [3] use > "NumPy" spelling. > > Some other popular [4] libraries use similar dichotomies: > > - Django - import django > - Cython - import cython > - PyYAML - import yaml > - scikit-learn - import sklearn > > On the other hand all standard Python libraries are lower-case named. > > Cheers, > > Bartosz > > [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#package-and-module-names > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NumPy > [3] http://www.numpy.org/_static/numpy_logo.png > [4] http://pypi-ranking.info/alltime > >> On 08/29/2016 07:43 AM, m...@telenczuk.pl wrote: >> > What is the official spelling of NumPy/Numpy/numpy? >> >> IMHO it should be written numpy, because ... >> >> >>> import NumPy >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> ImportError: No module named NumPy >> >>> import Numpy >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> ImportError: No module named Numpy >> >>> import numpy >> >>> >> >> Phil >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org >> https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
