Re: [Gretl-users] Python and Gretl

Am 27.01.2013 18:48, schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> Well I don't want to call myself a guru, especially given the few hours >> I have spent with Python in recent months/years, but the namespace alias >> is optional. So you can always do 'import numpy' and then just use >> 'numpy.loadtxt' etc. For the few functions that gretl uses for it's >> tricks behind the scenes you could also write: >> 'from numpy import loadtxt, savetxt' >> without having to specify any new namespace label, then you just use >> 'loadtxt' and 'savetxt' directly (which is bad style in bigger contexts, >> but here I think it should be ok). It's no problem to do both this >> 'from' form for gretl's own needs, and then 'import numpy as <whatever>' >> for further use by the user in the foreign block. > > OK, that sounds like a good approach. BTW, it occurs to me that in the python spirit of "explicit is better than implicit" it could also be just left to the user to do the 'import numpy as <whatever>'. Then gretl doesn't have to bother at all with the style that the user prefers, and the user-written python code in the foreign block would be more self-contained (and explicit, as I said).