lmoments3 and scipy (again)

Wed Oct 14 17:25:09 EDT 2020

Thank you, Kyle and Dennis.
The developer version from 17 months ago, which I hadn't spotted, has
solved my immediate problem. It would be good to have it mainstreamed to
prevent others having the same problem.
David
On 2020年10月15日 at 09:07, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
> On 2020年10月14日 12:05:33 +1300, David Painter
> <david at dpconsulting.co.nz> declaimed the following:
>> >I'm aware there have been problems with previous versions of
> >lmoments3 working with scipy -- comb having been replaced in scipy. I
> >thought by using pip to install numpy, scipy, lmoments3 [whence distr] I
> >would get compatible latest versions. I'm using 32-bit Python 3.8.6. I've
> >verified scipy 1.5.2 and lmoments3 1.10.4 are present. But I still get a
>> <SNIP>
>> >What am I doing wrong?
>> Well, the snarky answer would be "using SciPy 1.5.2"
>>> https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.special.comb.html
>> "comb" is now under scipy.special, not scipy.misc. But the real fault
> likely needs to be put on lmoments3, since scipy.misc.comb has been
> deprecated all the way back in scipy 1.0.0!
>>> https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy-1.2.0/reference/generated/scipy.misc.comb.html
>> https://pypi.org/project/lmoments3/#history indicates that lmoments3
> hasn't
> been updated in over FIVE years.
>> A change was merged into the /development/ branch a year and a
> half ago
> https://github.com/OpenHydrology/lmoments3/tree/develop explicitly for
> this
> situation, but has not gone "mainstream"
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