Perhaps another alternative is to just include a small compatibility module that would call the new functionality under the hood. Mike On 11/18/2011 09:07 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > nxutils has been removed from master because it is completely > redundant to the Path functionality that has been in matplotlib since > 0.98. In the process of porting to Python 3, I felt it was important > to reduce code duplication, because every additional line requires > additional testing. > > That said, there seems to be a lot of push back on this. We can > reinstate it, but I would suggest raising DeprecationWarnings for one > release and then removing it entirely in the next. > > Mike > > On 11/18/2011 12:21 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: >> Huh? Nxutils removed? Then how am I still using points_inside_poly? >> And, if I remember right, Path uses that to calculate contains(). >> >> Ben Root >> >> On Thursday, November 17, 2011, Eric Firing <ef...@ha... >> <mailto:ef...@ha...>> wrote: >> > On 11/17/2011 10:19 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: >> >> Most of what was in nxutils has been superseded by things in >> Numpy, and >> >> it makes more sense for it to be over there. >> >> >> >> In the case of points_inside_poly, you can use the Path object in >> >> path.py and the "contains_point" method. >> >> >> >> Mike >> > >> > Mike, >> > >> > This, however, brings us back to the plea by Volker Blum: >> > >> > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/mat...@li.../msg22669.html >> > >> > There is a real tension between the need to clean things up and >> simplify >> > them, and users' desire for minimal loss of backwards compatibility. >> > Personally, my instincts are in the "clean it up" camp, but a good >> > balance has to be found. >> > >> > nxutils was definitely a vestige of an earlier era; but I don't >> think it >> > went through any official, publicized, deprecation process, did it? >> > Maybe it didn't need to; I don't know. Perhaps we need to >> formulate and >> > write down a deprecation policy. >> > >> > Eric >> > >> >> >> >> On 11/17/2011 12:03 PM, James Evans wrote: >> >>> >> >>> All, >> >>> >> >>> I have not touched the code for several months, so it has taken me up >> >>> until just now to realize that nxutils has been removed from the >> build. >> >>> >> >>> I there any real reason for this? Particularly when you consider that >> >>> there are still functions present that use it and now they just fail. >> >>> >> >>> In particular I am referring to 'mlab.inside_poly'. In my case I was >> >>> using 'nxutils.points_inside_poly' directly, but the end result >> is the >> >>> same. >> >>> >> >>> Thanks, >> >>> >> >>> --James Evans >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure >> >>> contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, >> >>> security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this >> >>> data and makes sense of it. IT sense. 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